Nectophrynoides comprise only about one percent of all frogs and toads, but that number is officially increasing. In a study published in the journal Vertebrate Zoology, biologists describe an ...

An international team of researchers have identified three new species of enchanting, pustular, tree-dwelling toads from Africa. Their solution for having offspring away from water? Skipping the ...

Researchers have developed an enhanced LC-MS/MS method capable of quantifying 18 steroids—including key corticosteroid and sex steroid hormones, as well as intermediates involved in corticosteroid ...

Three new toad species bypass the tadpole stage entirely, giving birth to fully formed babies in isolated mountain forests.

An international team of researchers have identified three new species of enchanting, pustular, tree-dwelling toads from Africa. Their solution for ...

All that hopping is a survival tactic. The alternative is becoming the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water, except the ...

Ranitomeya hwata, a tiny rainforest frog, amazes with devoted male parenting. Guarding eggs and feeding them, ensuring ...

“These are truly live-bearing, so they give birth just like us,” herpetologist, evolutionary biologist, and study author Dr ...

It’s a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary ...

A University of Houston biologist has received a $2.16 million federal grant to study how some coastal frogs survive in salty environments, which could shed light on how cells, including those in ...