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 ...

The Amazon is home to the world’s greatest amphibian diversity, with an estimated 1,525 species, of which only 810 have been formally described by science. This megadiversity is under pressure from ...

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 ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

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 ...

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 ...