Clown Tree Frogs

An international team of scientists discovered two new species of clown tree frogs in the Amazon region. Until recently, these colorful amphibians had erroneously been considered part of another ...

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Clown frogs are widespread throughout the Amazon region and get their name from their unique, bright coloration. The two newly discovered clown frogs were previously considered to belong to other ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

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Australian Geographic: It’s a tiny bat buffet for green (or blue?) tree frogs

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Glass frogs do not live a life of modesty. With their semitransparent skin—green on the back, clear on the belly—the tree-dwelling, gummy-bear-size amphibians, which are native to the tropics of ...

Female American green tree frogs use their inflated lungs to dampen the mating calls of other species so they can pick out the ones from males they may mate with. Male frogs use mating calls, ranging ...

For a small frog, the alpine tree frog (Litoria verreauxii alpina) packs a lot of surprises. For one, this tree frog lives in snowy gullies and high mountain crags across the Australian Alps, far from ...

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The Tico Times: Frogs Once Declared Extinct Are Being Rediscovered in Costa Rica

Amphibians — cold-blooded animals that include frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians — are in big trouble. More than one third of the world’s 6,500 known species are threatened with ...