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

A team of Australian scientists has discovered a curious “chocolate frog” tree frog in the lowland rainforests of New Guinea. Tree frogs are known for their green skin – but due to its brown coloring, ...

On a private nature reserve in Costa Rica, Donald Varela-Soto searched for the source of a shrill frog call for six months. What he found turned out to be a new species, a tiny green tree frog that ...

Scientists in Western Australia have found a tree frog which is bright blue, rather than the usual green, due to a rare genetic mutation. The blue magnificent tree frog was spotted in the Charnley ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling ...

Question: About two months ago I found a tree frog in my parents backyard and was curious about the species of the frog. From what I can tell it appears to be a Gray Tree Frog however it is quite ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “The new species of frog has amazing colors and it would seem that it inhabits a universe of fantasies, like those created by Tolkien,” Diego F.

For frogs, love is noisy. Each spring, swamps, marshes and ponds across the United States become the amphibian equivalent of raucous singles bars as a host of damp-skinned hopefuls from many species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...

Many Jamaicans have a somewhat superstitious fear of anything slippery and slimy — in other words, amphibians and reptiles. Lizards (in particular the endemic Jamaican Croaking Gecko, Aristelliger ...

Science taught me something today. Tree frogs might be the best athletes on the planet, pound for pound. Look. I know that sounds stupid. They can't windmill a basketball at 40 years old like LeBron ...

A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling creatures. As they mature, they grow legs and lungs to live on land.