If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...

Researchers have identified a new species of poison-dart frog, Ranitomeya hwata, in the remote bamboo-forest of Alto Purus National Park located in eastern Peru. This newly discovered amphibian is the ...

Almost two-thirds of Australia is privately owned. But most of our scientific understanding of how threatened species are ...

MCCAMMON: In Peru, a research expedition traveled over mountains and through thick forests, going further than any team of scientists. GERMAN CHAVEZ: It's an area where very few scientific expeditions ...