Across the northern forests of North America, an ordinary-looking brown frog performs one of the most extreme survival feats ...

Some frogs hide in plain sight, but the granular glass frog takes transparency to a whole new level, revealing something ...

Pristimantis milpe is a common and widespread species that was mistaken for another species for more than a century.

The Pristimantis milpe frog, now its own species. (Santiago R. Ron.) The discovery of a new species is always cause for ...

Thousands of mountain yellow-legged frogs have been reintroduced in California as part of a nonprofit’s ongoing conservation ...

For more than a century, a frog living across the forests of western Ecuador and southern Colombia carried the wrong ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look ...

Large amphibians are often seen as symbols of healthy forests, yet many people rarely encounter them in the wild.

The European brown frog is also known as the common frog, although its unique abilities make it anything but. Long before we had the luxury of storing milk in refrigerators, households in Russia and ...

A century-old museum mix-up left a common, loud Chocó frog with the wrong scientific name, until DNA set the record straight.

It is barely two inches long and colored a brilliant, cheerful yellow, but the golden poison frog is widely regarded as the ...