New genetic research suggests a common Southeast Asian frog long believed to be one species could actually be six or seven distinct ones.

For nearly two centuries, a small brown frog living in Southeast Asian rainforests was considered a single, well-understood ...

Scientists analyzing Bornean fanged frogs found what was once thought to be one species may actually be several genetically distinct species.

Smithsonian researchers in Panama have begun to reintroduce native golden frogs to the wild in special enclosures ...

When a new species is discovered, it's tempting to imagine an adventure novel, said Chan Kin Onn of Michigan State University. "Most people have this image of an intrepid explorer braving an isolated ...

Wood frogs are highly dependent on environmental conditions to determine whether they are active. After fattening up during ...

While in the past much of the research on frogs in Australia was conducted on public lands, a rise in citizen science has ...

Certain species of wasps and frogs share a pain and inflammation peptide similar to one found in vertebrates to help defend against predators—a discovery that contributes to a shifting view of how ...

Conservationists in Argentina’s Patagonia region have helped save the country’s most threatened amphibian, the El Rincon stream frog, a species whose entire existence centers on a single warm stream ...

At a park near Canberra, Australia, a series of small white pyramid-shaped boxes are part of a new experiment: Can “frog ...

A new species of frog has been found hiding in plain sight in one of the busiest places on Earth: New York City. For years, biologists mistook the frog for a more widespread variety of leopard frog.

Up-to-date population estimates are difficult to determine because of environmental restraints preventing access to sites where the frogs are thought to live. The goal of the recent efforts has been ...