The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil that’s been around since ...

Scientists have discovered a strange new toad species smaller than a fingernail in a rainforest in northeast Brazil, shedding ...

Credit: Pavan Kumar T S / Close-Up Photographer of the Year A gliding frog clings to twigs in its final minutes of life. A ...

The frogs come from the tree frog genus Boophis and have been named in honor of seven iconic Star Trek captains: Kirk, Picard ...

Jaguars are top predators in the Amazon rainforest, known for their powerful build and adaptability to dense, humid ...

The animals that make up Minecraft have the ability to be tamed and bred, but each animal has their own requirements.

These extraordinary rainforest species, each differently adapted to their environment, are rarely observed due to their ...

There is one species of poison frog that lives in the U.S., and it can be found in West Virginia and across most of the East ...

This research is among the first to closely examine how chronic, low-level radiation affects the physiology of animals in ...

Last week in Atlantic City, amid discussions of business, enterprise, and strategy, nearly half of the Defector staff ...

The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny flea toad living on the forest floor in a Brazilian ...

Researchers studying similar small-sized “flea toads” found this species to be particularly interesting due to its diminutive size as one of the smallest known vertebrate animals.