The starry dwarf frog is an expert hider. Plunging into leaf litter at the slightest disturbance, it has successfully evaded attention for millions of years -- until now. The thumbnail-sized 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 ...

Astrobatrachus kurichiyana, also known as the "starry dwarf frog," has only been found on a single hill range in India's Western Ghats. Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar In 2010, a group of ...

Scientists found a wrinkly animal near mountain streams of Arunachal Pradesh and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Boruah, Narayanan, Gerard, Das and Deepak (2023) Shrouded in ...

I am writing this in response to the letter to the editor from Brenda F. DeLuca, VMD (“A froggy problem indeed,” July 5 LNP). I can speak personally about these frogs because, when we first carried ...

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The record-holder for the smallest frog in the world apparently makes up for its miniature size by packing a wallop of poison, research reveals. With a body that's only 10 millimeters long, the Mount ...