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. The ...

Fluorescent colors are very popular and are widely used for many unique things. To date, this glow-in-the-dark pigment has been seen to be naturally occurring in many plants and animals, except for ...

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 ...

Used for centuries as a natural disease prevention and physical stimulant, an Amazonian tree frog has become a symbol of Brazil’s fight to benefit the Indigenous from scientific developments based on ...

Instead, according to NationalGeographic.com, the scientists who discovered this previously unknown species in the Amazon are actually loyal followers. "We kept talking about the 'bat frog,'" said ...

An international team of scientists discovered two new species of clown tree frogs in the Amazon region. Until recently, these colorful amphibians had erroneously been considered part of another ...

Clown frogs are widespread throughout the Amazon region and get their name from their unique, bright coloration. The two newly discovered clown frogs were previously considered to belong to other ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of tree frog in an unusual place—a stretch of abandoned highway in Brazil. When herpetologists first heard male frogs calling in the Amazon rain forest, they ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a German research team from Kiel University used high speed cameras to capture the incredible gymnastic feats of the Amazon milk frog in slow motion. The ...

Holy Batfrog! Scientists have discovered a new tree frog species with a shrill, batlike call in the Brazilian Amazon. "As soon as I heard its call, I knew it was a new species. I had never heard ...