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.

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 ...

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 ...