On a lonely plateau in India's Western Ghat mountains, an ancient family of frogs has quietly hidden among the fallen leaves for millions of years, evading human detection. Measuring about the width ...

When it comes to beginner-friendly pets, it doesn’t get much easier than caring for and feeding an African dwarf frog. Though they have a cuddle factor of zero, they’re surprisingly cute little ...

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A tiny new frog species discovered in tropical forests of southwest India has been one of a kind for millions of years. Palaniswamy Vijayakumar and his colleagues first spotted the new species one ...

Yes, you read the title correctly — I grew up with an African dwarf frog as a pet. Not a dog, cat, hamster or bunny … but a small, 3-inch-long, brownish-green aquatic African dwarf frog. It was winter ...

Shrouded in darkness, several wrinkly “dwarf”-like creatures emerged. The camouflaged animals lurked along a mountain stream in India and caught the attention of nearby scientists. Researchers ...

I am writing this in response to the letter to the editor from Brenda F. DeLuca, VMD (“A froggy problem indeed,” July 5 LNP). I can speak personally about these frogs because, when we first carried ...

The starry dwarf frog is an expert hider. Plunging into leaf litter at the slightest disturbance, it has successfully evaded attention for millions of years -- until now. The thumbnail-sized species, ...

Scientists found a wrinkly animal near mountain streams of Arunachal Pradesh and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Boruah, Narayanan, Gerard, Das and Deepak (2023) Shrouded in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shrouded in darkness, several wrinkly “dwarf”-like creatures emerged. The camouflaged animals lurked along a mountain stream in ...