Two new species of clown tree frogs have been discovered in the Amazonian rainforests of Bolivia and Peru. Clown frogs are widespread throughout the Amazon region and get their name from their ...

According to a new study, up to 33% of the habitats of frogs, toads and tree frogs will be subject to increased drought risk by the year 2100. Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic forests are on that list.

To begin to answer this puzzle, Wiens and his colleagues made an evolutionary tree for 360 tree frog species in regions across the world, ranging from dry, cold climates to hot, damp ones.

Clown tree frogs are a widespread group of frogs primarily found in the Amazon basis, but also in adjacent savannas. They owe their popular name to their remarkably bright colors.

JULIA GRIFFIN: The toe pads of an Amazon milk frog can hold up to 14 times the animal's body weight. That's like an average American man holding a Honda Civic with his toes.

Moreover, the secretion of tree frog used by the Indigenous has demorphines, a pain-killer that is 33 per cent more effective than morphine, and has been studied to treat brain-cancer and ...

The newfound frog is the 27th species of Scinax—the snouted genus of tree frogs—known from the Amazon Basin. There are more than 800 species of tree frogs worldwide.

One million species are at risk of extinction because of human activity 01:27. Germán Chávez is no stranger to the Amazon rain forest, where he says "one can't help but get excited" by all the ...

They’d discovered a new species: Scinax juruena, or the Juruena snouted tree frog. Juruena snouted tree frogs are considered “small,” reaching just over 1 inch in length, researchers said.

The striking diversity of animals and plants that call the Amazon home may have less to do with the jungle's lush climate and more to do with how long ago the species moved in, new research finds.