If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...

Anyone walking through the Tarumã neighborhood in Curitiba (the capital of the state of Paraná, Brazil) today may find it difficult to imagine the area as it was in the past. Between the buildings, ...

MCCAMMON: In Peru, a research expedition traveled over mountains and through thick forests, going further than any team of scientists. GERMAN CHAVEZ: It's an area where very few scientific expeditions ...

Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...

Almost two-thirds of Australia is privately owned. But most of our scientific understanding of how threatened species are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...

Hundreds of the animals were loaded into coolers and hiked into the backcountry.