Scientists have discovered a brand new species of frog in the Peruvian Amazon. Gastrotheca mittaliiti is a miniature frog in a bright shade of green similar to that of Minecraft's Creeper. The ...

Few rainforest creatures are more iconic than the brightly colored tree frogs that inhabit the canopy of the Amazon. However, these creatures rely on a fragile environmental balance that is currently ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists found a color-changing animal with green bones on an island in the Amazon rainforest and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Ferrão, Hanken, Oda, Campião, Penhacek, Anjos and ...

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 ...

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