What explains the vivid colors of the strawberry poison-dart frog? Piotr Naskrecki / Minden Pictures In the animal world as in fashion, bright color makes a bold statement. The vivid hues of the ...

Have you ever wondered how city life affects animals like frogs? A new study reveals that urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop faster —but end up being smaller — than tadpoles from forests, probably ...

On a “very rainy night” in western Panama, herpetologists searching a forest reserve saw something in the darkness. It was a small, brownish frog hopping across the road, and the reptile and amphibian ...

On a rainy night in Panama in 1987, a record-setting creature was discovered. Aljoscha Laschgari via Unsplash On a “very rainy night” in western Panama, herpetologists searching a forest reserve saw ...

In the late 1980s, Jay M. Savage was among the first to recognize that amphibian declines in protected cloud forests were not isolated anomalies but part of a broader, global pattern that defied ...