If you liked this story, share it with other people. According to a study, global warming will increase droughts in up to 33% of the habitats of frogs, toads and treefrogs; in Brazil, the strongest ...

An international team of scientists announced their recent discovery of a colorful new poison frog in a remote place deep in the Amazon rainforest. Ranitomeya aetherea, a new poison frog species ...

A small, greenish, nearly transparent frog measuring just over 2 centimeters was found in forests bordering the Corumbá River ...

One frog species, H. binotatus, naturally tolerated the chytrid fungus when its healthy skin microbiome could help protect it from infection. When the skin's community of protective bacteria was ...

A deadly fungus has already driven hundreds of amphibian species to extinction, and scientists have yet to find a way to stop it at scale. But a Brazilian frog that somehow shrugs off infection every ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of ...

Sometimes called the saddleback toad. these newly discovered frogs are members of the family Brachycephalidae, order Anura. Traditionally, there is one genus, Brachycephalus. These frogs are among the ...

In the winter months of eastern Brazil, temporary streams offer a home for a new species of frog. Mângia, et al (2025) Journal of Vertebrate Biology In the eastern Brazil state of Bahia, the arid ...

In the forests of western Brazil, along the banks of a Juruá River tributary, researchers came upon more than a dozen tiny creatures, smaller than a nickel, flaunting bright colors that warned: “stay ...

The bacteria living on frogs' skin could play a vital role in protecting the animals from a deadly fungal disease. A team of researchers led by Penn State scientists found that frogs' natural skin ...