Used for centuries as a natural disease prevention and physical stimulant, an Amazonian tree frog has become a symbol of Brazil’s fight to benefit the Indigenous from scientific developments based on ...

Fluorescent colors are very popular and are widely used for many unique things. To date, this glow-in-the-dark pigment has been seen to be naturally occurring in many plants and animals, except for ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, in a region known as the Manú Biosphere Reserve, Shirley Jennifer Serrano Rojas crouched near a stream. She listened while her audio recorder tracked the noise of the rain ...

Scientists have described a minuscule species of poison dart frog in a remote river basin in the Amazon 1. The species might be monogamous, a rarity in frogs. Alexander Tamanini Mônico at the National ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of tree frog in an unusual place—a stretch of abandoned highway in Brazil. When herpetologists first heard male frogs calling in the Amazon rain forest, they ...

Deep in the stillness of the Amazon, researchers discovered new voices. Concealed behind the lush jungle, two small frogs were noticed—not by size, but by colours and sounds. Two poison dart frogs ...

Scientists recently described two new species of clown tree frogs — brightly patterned amphibians from the Amazon region — and this classification re-evaluated how the frogs were previously identified ...

Venom from an Amazonian tree frog can cause diarrhea and heart palpitations -- but fans claim that it can cure everything from anxiety to migraines. Getty Images/iStockphoto Silicon Valley executives ...

Clown frogs are widespread throughout the Amazon region and get their name from their unique, bright coloration. The two newly discovered clown frogs were previously considered to belong to other ...

Biologists have documented, for the first time, the widespread presence of the notorious chytrid fungus in 80 species of frogs from lowland rain forest sites in the Peruvian Amazon. University of ...