The Lake Oku clawed frog (Xenopus longipes) of Cameroon has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time at the ZSL London Zoo in the United Kingdom, raising hopes that the frog, which lives in just a single location in…
A huge amphibian that lived more than 220 million years ago was discovered in a lake in Portugal that scientists estimate was the size of a small car and had a mouth full of teeth. Read More California's Super Hybrid…
The amphibian world has a shape shifter in Pristimantis mutabilis, a small frog that was discovered in a nature reserve in the Andean cloud forests of Ecuador. Just like the Changeling Odo of the Star Trek universe, Pristimantis mutabilis can change its…
Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute who set out to determine if an anti-fungal probiotic treatment could stop the chytridiomycosis fungus from attacking Panamanian golden frogs (Atelopus zeteki) found that 25 percent of the frogs in the study had a…
A small dart frog that can fit on a dime has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time by scientists working with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Read More Poison Frog…
A new species of Andean water frog that hails from the Pacific slopes of the Andes Mountains in Peru has been discovered and described in the February 2 edition of Pensoft Journal. Read More Four New Species of See-Through Glass…
The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is a critically endangered species and now a group of government officials in Shenzhen, China are in trouble for not only feasting on the rare species, but also for assaulting the journalists who exposed the…
The Austin blind salamander (Eurycea waterlooensis), native to the state of Texas, has been added to the state’s endangered species list, two years after the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service approved it for the federal endangered species list. Read…
Two years ago, Illah Hickman, then a 12-year-old sixth grader sent a proposal to the Idaho State House to designate the Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus) as the official state amphibian. It seemed that her lesson in civics would go…
New research shows that the eastern hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus a. alleganiensis) , the largest salamander in North America (capable of growing more than 2 feet in length) is under threat by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which has affected more…
A new species of frog that gives birth to live tadpoles has been discovered in the rain forests of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia. The frog, Limnonectes larvaepartus was described in the PLOS One Journal by a team of scientists led…
The South Pacific stream side frog (Craugastor taurus), which hasn’t been observed in the wild since 1997, has been rediscovered in Costa Rica, according to a study published in the journal Tropical Conservation Science. What is also notable about the discovery…
Researcher S. P. Vijayakumar of the National Centre for Biological Sciences has been studying distribution patterns of herps in India and the Nicobar archipelago for more than a decade and began cataloging the new frog species in 2008, the first year…
The coqui frog (Eleutherodactylus coqui), a beloved species in its native Puerto Rico and reviled by most in Hawaii where they were introduced, have become a friend so to speak to some on the Big Island, at least according to…
Question: Is there a kind of frog that makes the best pet? I’d like one with the sticky toes that climbs well on your arm, not one of the fat ones that just sits around all day in a fat…
A new species of leopard frog that was originally discovered in the 1930s but was discounted by scientists at the time has been discovered hiding in plain sight in New York and New Jersey. The frog, the Atlantic Coast leopard…
Good news for the southern red back salamander! Scientists conducting a study of the salamander (Plethodon serratus) biomass (meaning food source for other animals) in a single district of Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest have estimated that there are roughly 1,400…
The Peruvians are literally grinding away the existence of a critically endangered frog. The Titcaca water frog (Telmatobius culeus), is an aquatic frog that lives its entire life in the rivers that flow into Peru’s Lake Tititcaca. It was named…
A new species of treefrog that was discovered in 2009 during a biodiversity survey in the Amazon rainforest has been named after rocker Ozzy Osbourne. That’s right, Ozzy was bestowed the honor of having a treefrog named after him. And…
Frogs lay eggs in water, dirt, puddles of water located in plants and some even keep them on their back until they become froglets. But did you know that one species of frog, the white-spotted bush frog (Raorchestes chalazodes) lays…
Thieves have stolen a bronze frog statue from a city in Southern California that had been sitting in the city’s fountain for more than 15 years. The city of San Dimas Calif., east of Los Angeles and just over the…
A photographer from England who happens to also own a pair of red-eyed tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) is the winner of an international nature photography competition with his entry of his frogs underneath a leaf umbrella in the rain. Read More…
Firefighters are often called to rescue cats in trees, but in this case, the firefighters responding to a Sept. 23 house fire in Westworth Village, Tex., rescued a pet frog after they doused the flames on a house whose residents…
The mountain chicken frog (Leptodactylus fallax), once a popular delicacy in the Caribbean and now one of the world’s rarest frog species has been the beneficiary of a captive breeding and release program conducted by the Zoological Society of London…
