Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A frog is seen diving headfirst into a flower's bulb to access nectar. A frog is seen diving headfirst into a flower's bulb to ...

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Brazil has found evidence that pumpkin toadlets (Brachycephalus) have poor jumping skills because their inner ear canals are ...

For researchers and environmentalists, knowing how frogs and other amphibians move through their environment is an important part of the ability to appropriately target conservation efforts. Movement ...

The new species of nurse frog lives among leaf-litter in southern Brazilian Amazonia, researchers said. J.R.D. Souza via Vertebrate Zoology Scientists recently identified a new species living among ...

We all know the usual pollinating suspects like bees and butterflies. However, one adorable little Brazilian frog might be getting into the pollination game. The Izecksohn’s Brazilian tree frog was ...

Amphibians in Brazil’s Pantanal, one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse wetlands, could lose huge swaths of their habitat as the region dries out from climate change, a new study has found.

Get out your smallest violin—or maybe your biggest—for the petite frogs whose miniature ear structures hinder their ability to hop, one of the defining characteristics of frogs. The frogs are of the ...

In the forests of western Brazil, along the banks of a Juruá River tributary, researchers came upon more than a dozen tiny creatures, smaller than a nickel, flaunting bright colors that warned: “stay ...

Sometimes called the saddleback toad. these newly discovered frogs are members of the family Brachycephalidae, order Anura. Traditionally, there is one genus, Brachycephalus. These frogs are among the ...