Scientists have discovered a brand new species of frog in the Peruvian Amazon. Gastrotheca mittaliiti is a miniature frog in a bright shade of green similar to that of Minecraft's Creeper. The ...

Germán Chávez is no stranger to the Amazon rain forest, where he says "one can't help but get excited" by all the reptiles and amphibians that he has made a career out of studying. But when he came ...

DNA testing of two new-to-science frog species has shown they share a common ancestor — a species that lived 55 million years ago in the mountains of what is today Brazil’s Amazonas state. The ...

Scientists have finally managed to record the ear-piercing screams that a frog in the Amazon rainforest makes to defend against predators. It’s the first reported case of the use of ultrasound by an ...

A bright green frog barely bigger than a paper clip is rewriting what scientists know about amphibian reproduction in the Peruvian Amazon. Researchers have identified a new species of miniature ...