Jul 4, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Herpetologists have described three new species of the frog genus Pristimantis from the rugged, misty highlands of northwestern Peru. Pristimantis chinguelas....

Jun 20, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The discovery of Litoria tylerantiqua suggests that Australian treefrogs (pelodryadids) were present in Australia by the Early Eocene, when the continent...

Feb 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have discovered a new species — and redescribed another one — of the tree frog genus Litoria living on the Australian continent. The...

Dec 26, 2024 by News Staff

In 2022, biologists with Conservation International conducted a survey that uncovered a trove of biodiversity in the heart of the Alto Mayo landscape,...

Oct 31, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered the well-preserved fossilized remains of a tadpole of the early anuran species Notobatrachus degiustoi at the locality...

Oct 15, 2024 by News Staff

In reference to the otherworldly sounds by which these treefrogs of the genus Boophis fill Malagasy rainforests, some of them reminiscent of sounds of...

Dec 21, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have discovered a new species of the terrestrially-nesting fanged frog genus Limnonectes living on Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. The species has...

Jun 6, 2023 by Natali Anderson

The newly-identified species belongs to Mixophyes, an Australo-Papuan group of ground-dwelling frogs. The southern stuttering frog (Mixophyes australis)...

Apr 11, 2023 by News Staff

Biologists have described five new species of small treefrogs from hill and lower montane forests in the high rainfall belt that straddles the southern...

Apr 3, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Most people are familiar with South and Central America’s iconic poison dart frogs, especially the golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis), that...

Feb 17, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered species, Hyloscirtus tolkieni, belongs to the stream-breeding treefrog genus Hyloscirtus; its specific epithet, tolkieni, is in honor...

Feb 6, 2023 by Natali Anderson

The newly-identified species belongs to the frog genus Hyperolius and has an unusual trait — it’s completely silent. Hyperolius ukaguruensis. Image...

Jan 3, 2023 by News Staff

The newly-discovered frog species belong to the subgenus Brygoomantis within the mantellid frog genus Mantidactylus. The newly-discovered frog species...

Dec 28, 2022 by News Staff

Transparency in animals is a complex form of camouflage involving mechanisms that reduce the scattering and absorption of light throughout the organism....

Dec 27, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct frog genus Baurubatrachus from fossils found in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Life reconstruction...

Nov 21, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

More than 120 million years ago in what is now China, a hungry dromaeosaurid dinosaur ate a small frog. Daurlong wangi holotype: (a) whole specimen, (b)...

Oct 26, 2022 by Sergio Prostak

Acoustic communication, broadly distributed among vertebrates, plays a fundamental role in parental care, mate attraction and various other behaviors....

Jun 20, 2022 by News Staff

In new research, a team of scientists from the Ohio State University acquainted 49 frog-eating bats with a series of ringtones that attracted their attention,...

Apr 27, 2022 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland has described six new species of direct-developing frogs from the Mexican...

Mar 24, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has described two new species of the frog genus Hyalinobatrachium from the Ecuadorian Andes. The Mashpi glassfrog...