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 ...

Scientists have discovered a brand new species of frog in the Peruvian Amazon. Gastrotheca mittaliiti is a miniature frog in a bright shade of green similar to that of Minecraft's Creeper. The ...

Fluorescent colors are very popular and are widely used for many unique things. To date, this glow-in-the-dark pigment has been seen to be naturally occurring in many plants and animals, except for ...

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 ...

Frogs are a critical part of the food web and keep ecosystems healthy. They're also some of nature's weirdest and most ...