Photo from Zhong-Bin Yu via Wu, Yu, Yang, Duan, Zuo, Zhang, Kilunda, Murphy and Che (2025) In the mountains of southern China ...

Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what they eat. Typical ambush predators, they squeeze their bodies into the forest substrate or leaf ...

These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep by day stuck to leaf-bottoms with their eyes closed ... Many of the animals that eat red-eyed tree frogs are nocturnal hunters that use keen eyesight ...

Suctioned to a leaf bottom in the rainforests of South and Central America, glass frogs seem to vanish in plain sight—the transparent skin of their undersides erasing the hard edges of their ...

A once critically endangered species of leaf frog has made a comeback. NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced immense backlash from researchers. A federal judge ruled to extend the halt to cuts ...

White-lined leaf litter toads live near mountain streams at elevations ... breeds in April because they found a pregnant female frog around that time. Thousands of new species are found each ...

Scientists have now identified it as a new species of leaf litter toad, according to a study published Jan. 16 in the peer-reviewed journal Zoosystematics and Evolution. Researchers described ...

A nine-year-old schoolgirl is to front a global educational campaign, launched today, to save one the world’s rarest frogs. Lucy Marland joined forces with The University of Manchester after coming ...