If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Hundreds of the animals were loaded into coolers and hiked into the backcountry.

Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...

MCCAMMON: In Peru, a research expedition traveled over mountains and through thick forests, going further than any team of scientists. GERMAN CHAVEZ: It's an area where very few scientific expeditions ...

The “metallic poison frog” Ranitomeya aquamarina (left) and the “heavenly” Ranitomeya aquamarina (right) are the first newly discovered species in their genus in 13 years. That long trek for humans is ...

Somewhere between life and death is the Alaskan Tree Frog. Discover how this amphibian freezes and lives to tell the tale.

Almost two-thirds of Australia is privately owned. But most of our scientific understanding of how threatened species are ...

Scientists have found seven new species of frogs in Madagascar whose high-pitched calls they say are like the “sound effects from the sci-fi television series Star Trek”. Researchers from the ...

Scientists followed a chirping sound in a Madagascar forest to a “secretive” creature and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto Walking through a dark misty forest in ...

Mating calls and rituals can be intercepted, or drowned out, by invasive species. Scientists are just starting to understand ...