Scientists have discovered a strange new toad species smaller than a fingernail in a rainforest in northeast Brazil, shedding more light on the rich diversity of life forms in the region. The species ...

Three studies have recently explored toe-tapping, which seems to have something to do with frogs preying on insects. By Elizabeth Landau Faster than Gene Kelly tap-dancing in the rain, many species of ...

Distribution of the frogs studied and examples of their finger disc widths. Distribution of the Kaloula conjuncta complex A and B K. picta. Diamond = location of samples sequenced for this study; star ...

The cordyceps fungus of "The Last of Us" may not pose a real risk of zombie-fying humankind, but can the same be said of our amphibian friends? Indian scientists on a nature walk through the foothills ...

There’s much more to frogs than hopping and ribbiting. Some frogs swallow their tadpoles and later cough tiny, fully formed frogs out of their mouths. Some freeze in the winter, only to come back to ...

The role human-induced climate change plays in the decline of frog species just took a strange turn. Scientists are becoming keenly aware that animals’ bodies are being affected in peculiar ways due ...

Australia’s scarlet-sided pobblebonk frog thrives in waters so acidic they should be deadly, with its tadpoles tolerating water with a pH within the range of human stomach acid. This may be thanks to ...

Maybe frog and fungi are friends. By Jude Coleman Over the summer, Lohit Y.T., a river and wetlands specialist at World Wildlife Fund-India, set off with his friends in the drizzly foothills of the ...