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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Researchers say the fossil shows the evolution of frogs and toads, revealing that tadpoles today are very similar to their ...

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

The Theatre Association of New York State announced the Palmer Opera House received five awards for the recent production of ...

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 ...

Johnson County founded a chapter of the Imagination Library in 2017, in response to low kindergarten readiness rates in the ...