As Smithsonian magazine reported, that was the case in Ecuador's cloud forest, where a naturalist guide spotted a daddy ...

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A new study suggests that harvestmen actively attack the slippery amphibians, rather than just scavenging them. The findings ...

It seems like newly-discovered animal species are being described and named in scientific journals regularly. With that in mind, it shouldn’t come off as much of a surprise to anyone that researchers ...

Researchers who complain about testy librarians, unreasonable intellectual-property laws, or uncomprehending customs officials might want to meet the frog hunters of the Zoology Museum at the ...

A group of scientists and amphibian enthusiasts from Michigan State University, Ecuadorian schools, and indigenous communities worked together to find the harlequin frog species Ecologists have ...

QUITO, Ecuador— Environmental groups filed a legal brief today urging the Provincial Court of Imbabura in Ecuador to halt all environmental permits for a mining project because the government failed ...

A new species of frog discovered in Ecuador is the first vertebrate known to change its skin texture from smooth to spiny, researchers say. The mutable species of rain frog possesses an ability ...

Poachers in Ecuador have long known the hefty prices their country's rare frogs can fetch. But now environmentally conscious firms are starting to sell the amphibians too -- to try to save them from ...

Conservationists in Ecuador have taken a controversial approach to fighting the country’s illegal frog trade—they’ve entered it themselves. Instead of poaching frogs from the wild, biologists working ...

CHANG: Like many glass frogs, which are found across Central and South America, this one is green on top, and a portion of its underside is transparent enough to see inside of it - hence, glass frog.