That joke only makes sense when one hears the news that scientists have found seven new tree frog species in Madagascar, and all of them are named after iconic Star Trek captains, as noted in a ...

Nature doesn’t hold back when it comes to color and some of the most dazzling displays can be found in the animal kingdom.

In 1996, when herpetologist Rafe Brown accompanied a few biologists to the Philippine island of Mindanao to study frogs, they ...

FROM A WINDY SILENCE, the distant calls of night creatures drew nearer; as we climbed into the mist and clouds, they emerged, ...

A group led by University of São Paulo (USP) researchers in Brazil has described a new genus of frogs, Dryadobates, also ...

Most people's encounters with lemurs have occurred through their representations in popular children's media, like ...

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"[The ranchers] are really proud about being neighbors of these incredible animals." Researchers make incredible breakthrough in tiny habitat for rare frog species: 'A kind of local symbol' first ...

Conservationists in Argentina’s Patagonia region have helped save the country’s most threatened amphibian, the El Rincon ...

How do scientists monitor the populations of the threatened California red-legged frog? With careful listening and a little ...

Though some might describe the Cyclops as a ‘Green Hell’, I think the landscape is magical, at once enchanting and dangerous, like something out of a Tolkien book.” ...