Mar 24, 2015 by News Staff

Case Western Reserve University PhD student Katherine Krynak, naturalist Tim Krynak of Cleveland Metroparks’ Natural Resources Division, and their colleagues...

Feb 5, 2015 by News Staff

Biologists from the United States and Peru have described a colorful new species of water frog from the Peruvian Andes. The water frog Telmatobius ventriflavum....

Jan 3, 2015 by News Staff

The newly-discovered species of fanged frog, Limnonectes larvaepartus, from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the only frog known that gives direct...

Oct 29, 2014 by News Staff

A team of U.S. scientists headed by Dr Jeremy Feinberg of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, has described a new cryptic species of leopard frog...

Sep 29, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Germany, Colombia and Panama led by Prof Andrew Crawford of the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota has described a new species...

Aug 19, 2014 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of scientists headed by Dr Goncalo Rosa of the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology has described...

Jan 8, 2014 by News Staff

According to a study led by Don Larson of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) freeze up to 60 percent of their bodies...

Dec 30, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Sci-News.com presents some of the best species officially described in 2013. A walking shark, a snail with semi-transparent shell, a venomous crustacean,...

Nov 4, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Belgian biologist has described two new colorful species of frogs of the genus Pristimantis from northern South America. Pristimantis jamescameroni. Image...

Sep 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr Fred Kraus from the University of Michigan has described three new species of frogs in the genus Oreophryne from Papua New Guinea. Oreophryne cameroni...

Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British scientists have made a surprising discovery after studying how tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and the Western clawed frog...

Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of amphibian biologists led by Dr Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum in Sydney has discovered a new species of flying frog near...

May 22, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A new bright yellow frog species has been discovered in the mountains of western Panama by German biologists. This is a male of the new frog species, Diasporus...

Mar 19, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers has found a new species of leopard frog that for years biologists mistook for a more widespread variety of leopard frog. The newly...

Jan 12, 2012 by News Staff

A team of biologists has discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which breaks the record for the world’s tiniest known vertebrate. The...

Dec 14, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A U.S. researcher has discovered the world’s smallest frogs in forests of southeastern Papua New Guinea. The study by Fred Kraus from the Bishop Museum,...

Dec 12, 2011 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has revealed the first evidence of animals advertising their homes to potential mates. Researchers from University...