Germán Chávez is no stranger to the Amazon rain forest, where he says "one can't help but get excited" by all the reptiles and amphibians that he has made a career out of studying. But when he came ...

DNA testing of two new-to-science frog species has shown they share a common ancestor — a species that lived 55 million years ago in the mountains of what is today Brazil’s Amazonas state. The ...

Scientists have discovered a brand new species of frog in the Peruvian Amazon. Gastrotheca mittaliiti is a miniature frog in a bright shade of green similar to that of Minecraft's Creeper. The ...

Need a break from politics and the pandemic? You’re probably not in the Amazon rain forest right now, but we can take you there in audio. Today, in part two of our three-part audio sound escape, we ...

By David Brown Researchers have recorded microplastics in frog tadpoles and their pond habitats in the wild in the Amazon for ...

Discovering microplastics in Amazonian tadpoles is a concerning development for one of Earth's most diverse areas. A ...

A tiny burrowing frog that lives underground in the Amazon, known to local people as the 'tapir frog' because its long nose, has been given an official scientific description. The people of Peru's ...