Brazil’s Atlantic forest has many frogs of the Brachycephalus genus, which are known also as saddleback toads. Their penchant for springing around and leaping distances about 30 times their body ...

The world’s second-smallest vertebrate has been discovered—a tiny flea toad living on the forest floor in a Brazilian ...

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Credit: Pavan Kumar T S / Close-Up Photographer of the Year A gliding frog clings to twigs in its final minutes of life. A ...

The smallest vertebrates so far discovered are the flea-toads, which live at the limit for how small any vertebrate can possibly get.

Scientists think they might have found the world's smallest animal with a backbone - and it's a tiny frog. The Brazilian Flea Toad (which confusingly is a frog, and not a toad) is about 7 ...

Brachycephalus dacnis is the seventh species of flea toad to be identified and is slightly larger than only one closely related species found in southern Bahia, Brazil. The study, published by a team ...

I remember hiking in a state forest in northern Wisconsin with Roy while we stayed at a friend’s cottage. We discovered a ...

“A Year with Frog and Toad” is a jazzy musical based on the children’s book series by Arnold Lobel that invites audiences to ...

A recent study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that severe increases in aridity caused by climate change is drying ...

In the new study, the team describes this well-preserved fossil tadpole. It belongs to the species Notobatrachus degiustoi and dates back about 168 to 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic. Most ...

Frogs and toads are especially sensitive to climate changes that involve loss of water because they have thin skins, which must remain moist for them to survive. Without water, they suffocate.