A tiny frog has been hiding a flashy secret. Researchers have discovered that an amphibian from the Amazon is the world’s first known fluorescent frog. Glowing an ethereal green when positioned under ...

An international team of scientists discovered two new species of clown tree frogs in the Amazon region. Until recently, these colorful amphibians had erroneously been considered part of another ...

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 ...

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 ...

The incredible acrobatics of the tree frog, in slow motion The toe pad of the Amazon milk frog can hold up to 14 times the animal’s body weight. That’s like an average American man holding a Honda ...