An international team of scientists discovered two new species of clown tree frogs in the Amazon region. Until recently, these colorful amphibians had erroneously been considered part of another ...

A tiny frog has been hiding a flashy secret. Researchers have discovered that an amphibian from the Amazon is the world’s first known fluorescent frog. Glowing an ethereal green when positioned under ...

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 have discovered a new species of tree frog in an unusual place—a stretch of abandoned highway in Brazil. When herpetologists first heard male frogs calling in the Amazon rain forest, they ...

The incredible acrobatics of the tree frog, in slow motion The toe pad of the Amazon milk frog can hold up to 14 times the animal’s body weight. That’s like an average American man holding a Honda ...