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 ...

Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan, buried under rocks, or deep within the region’s humid soil, researchers discovered seven new species with ...

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KAGOSHIMA--A dwarf shrub species of the nettle family, believed extinct in Japan for about a century, was recently found to be thriving in the wild on Amami-Oshima island, part of southern Japan's ...

Shimano, a professor at Tokyo’s Hosei University, had found a ... side of the Japanese archipelago during his investigations. That meant this one “must be an unknown species” or that it ...

In the gardens and parks of Toyota City, Japan, a small creature turned out to be a new species. Getty Images/iStockphoto To many across the islands of Japan, small tree frogs, or amagaeru, are a ...