This week a report showed off the newest "world's oldest" rain forest frogs. "It was exhilarating to hold these small fossils up to the light to reveal the frogs within," said David C. Blackburn, one ...

Scientists found a color-changing creature calling from the edge of a forest in French Guiana and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Elodie Courtois via Mônico, Courtois, Koch, Blanc, ...

As darkness seeped into a forest in South America, a “bright yellow” creature with “large” eyes perched on the leaves and began calling. The “powerful” sound caught the attention of nearby scientists ...

Researchers in Brazil have come across seven new species of colorful, miniature frogs deep in the country’s rain forest. The frogs, part of the genus Brachycephalus, rarely exceed one centimeter (0.4 ...

A team of scientists ventured deep into the rain-soaked Panamanian forest on a mission to restore wild populations of a critically-endangered amphibian. Brian Gratwicke It was like working in a shower ...

More than a third of the 7,000-odd living species of frogs and toads are found in rain forests around the world. But the fossil record for amphibians from these kinds of wet, tropical environments has ...