A rare amphibian once thought to be extinct has resurfaced in Chile, marking a remarkable scientific breakthrough. Alsodes vittatus, a small frog known only from old records and a single specimen, has ...

These largely terrestrial frogs may have been as ill-tempered and aggressive as their living relatives, the ceratophyrines of South America ... remains from the species were found.

A team of researchers has rediscovered a frog species ... of this enigmatic species after more than a century without records. This is an important milestone for South American herpetology and ...

but local communities throughout South America are fighting back In Ecuador, a glass frog from a new species identified in 2022, Hyalinobatrachium nouns, hangs from the underside of a leaf ...

according to a study published March 21 in the peer-reviewed journal Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. The team planned to study two similar-looking frog species until they came ...

Gray officially describes the frog as a separate species in the top zoological journal, Zootaxa. He has worked extensively with this unusual group of frogs from Central and South America, both in the ...

The researchers sampled for Bd in multiple species of ... in museums in South America and Europe. They found that all the Bd-positive archived amphibians had been collected in the 1970s, around the ...

Many species of frog are known to be ... The venom of Bruno's casque-headed frog is an estimated 25 times more potent than that of Fer-de-lance pit vipers from Central and South America (genus ...

The third episode of Seven Worlds, One Planet focuses on the most species-rich continent on Earth - South America ... Poison dart frogs can be very dangerous, and they are only about the size ...