The frogs who laid these eggs on leaves and boulders were tiny members of the fanged frog family. The caretakers of the nests were all males. According to Frederick , egg-guarding behavior from ...

They lay their clutch, which is a group of one to 40 eggs on average, in a dark, humid place like the base of a leaf or a hole in a tree. The male frog fertilizes the clutch. Within 10 to 18 days ...

Two new species of torrent-breeding tree frog were found along fast-flowing rivers in Papua New Guinea. ... they listened for the calls of frogs perched on leaves just above the flowing water.

Noblella arutam, or the Arutam leaf litter frog, was discovered hidden under leaves on the forest floor, actively moving around in the night, according to a study published Oct. 2 in the peer ...

To be sure, the new study isn’t the first to investigate the divergence of the Australian and South American tree frogs. By following the genetic transformations of these two families over time, prior ...

The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental ...