A newly discovered frog species, native to the Peruvian Amazonian region, has been named after the former Detroit Zoo Curator of Amphibians. Allobates sieggreenae, endemic to the Peruvian Amazonian, ...

Scientists have finally managed to record the ear-piercing screams that a frog in the Amazon rainforest makes to defend against predators. It’s the first reported case of the use of ultrasound by an ...

Germán Chávez is no stranger to the Amazon rain forest, where he says "one can't help but get excited" by all the reptiles and amphibians that he has made a career out of studying. But when he came ...

A tiny burrowing frog that lives underground in the Amazon, known to local people as the 'tapir frog' because its long nose, has been given an official scientific description. The people of Peru's ...

This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Jeff DelViscio. Today: part two of our three-part sound escape series to the Amazon rain forest. In this episode, we’re going into the dark. Make ...

The people of Peru’s Comunidad Nativa Tres Esquinas have long known about a tiny, burrowing frog with a long snout; one local name for it is rana danta, “tapir frog” for its resemblance to the ...

DNA testing of two new-to-science frog species has shown they share a common ancestor — a species that lived 55 million years ago in the mountains of what is today Brazil’s Amazonas state. The ...

Researchers dug up a new-to-science species of burrowing frog in the Peruvian Amazon that resembles chocolate. The frog has been nicknamed the tapir frog for its distinctive-looking snout.