Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...
Vijayan's night frog (Nyctibatrachus pulivijayani), a 13.6 mm miniature-sized frog from the Agasthyamala hills in the Western Ghats in India, sits comfortably on a thumbnail. It is one of seven newly ...
While basically all frogs are semi-aquatic to some degree, some species spend nearly all of their lives underwater! Though they are quite rare, there are several notable varieties of nearly fully ...
If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...
(NEW YORK) — Scientists from India have discovered seven new species of frogs, according to a news release Tuesday from PeerJ, a peer-reviewed biological and medical sciences journal. All of the newly ...
Researchers have discovered seven new species of tree frogs that make otherworldly calls in the rainforests of Madagascar. Their strange, high-pitched whistling calls sound more like sound effects ...
A species of frogs in Southern California whose future was once uncertain may have hope for survival in the wild thanks to a multi-agency breeding and reintroduction program. More than 70 endangered ...
The discovery of new species within the genera Leptobrachella and Leptolalax highlights the increasingly recognised complexity of anuran biodiversity across Asia. Recent taxonomic studies employing ...
Surviving the winter was a major milestone for the species but the frogs aren’t out of the woods yet. “Reintroductions like this are notoriously challenging, and there’s no guarantee of success,” ...
Rayna Bell, a herpetology expert and curator at the California Academy of Sciences, told Snopes it's true that some frogs have heart-shaped pupils, adding that the photo in question appears to be a ...