Crouched over the leaf litter, where dry leaves accumulate on the forest floor, a researcher tries to capture a distinct ...

Germán Chávez is no stranger to the Amazon rain forest, where he says "one can't help but get excited" by all the reptiles and amphibians that he has made a career out of studying. But when he came ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of ...

DNA testing of two new-to-science frog species has shown they share a common ancestor — a species that lived 55 million years ago in the mountains of what is today Brazil’s Amazonas state. The ...

The Atlantic Coast leopard frog, first identified in an industrial section of Staten Island in 2012, is now on the state’s endangered species list. Conservation groups see an opportunity. By Aaron ...

Frogs are a critical part of the food web and keep ecosystems healthy. They're also some of nature's weirdest and most wonderful marvels.

Scientists have described a minuscule species of poison dart frog in a remote river basin in the Amazon 1. The species might be monogamous, a rarity in frogs. Alexander Tamanini Mônico at the National ...

Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...