Frogs are among nature’s most vibrant creatures, with some species displaying dazzling colours as warnings, camouflage, or mating signals. These brilliant hues are especially common in tropical frogs, ...

Hiking through the dense rainforest of Madagascar, scientists heard a series of “otherworldly” sounds. The “somewhat bizarre” calls came from several “cute” creatures living near streams. They turned ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “long” toes in a “swampy forest” of Bolivia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Moravec, Farková, Vences and Köhler (2025), shared by ...

Researchers have newly described three extremely rare species of toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets.

To many across the islands of Japan, small tree frogs, or amagaeru, are a regular sight in gardens and parks around the country. Japanese tree frogs are found not only in Japan, but also Korea, ...

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 these amazing amphibians. There are currently around 7,600 known species ...

Researchers said the new species inhabits an extremely narrow range, confined to one section of alpine meadow on Mount Capella. Photo by Stephen J. Richards In 1991, researchers made an “extremely ...

As darkness settled across a “swampy forest” in northern Bolivia, a “robust” creature perched near the water and called out. A flashlight beam cut through the night and illuminated the “large”-eyed ...