A tiny burrowing frog that lives underground in the Amazon, known to local people as the 'tapir frog' because its long nose, has been given an official scientific description. The people of Peru's ...

Researchers dug up a new-to-science species of burrowing frog in the Peruvian Amazon that resembles chocolate. The frog has been nicknamed the tapir frog for its distinctive-looking snout.

Scientists have discovered a new species of tree frog in an unusual place—a stretch of abandoned highway in Brazil. When herpetologists first heard male frogs calling in the Amazon rain forest, they ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of ...

Scientists have described a minuscule species of poison dart frog in a remote river basin in the Amazon 1. The species might be monogamous, a rarity in frogs. Alexander Tamanini Mônico at the National ...

Although there's no research to support the claims and it isn't approved by the FDA, the use of kambo is growing in the U.S.