The purple frog, or Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis ... Though it’s lineage has been around long enough to have witnessed dinosaurs, the species was only discovered in 2003. The Western Ghats ...

In 2003, scientists described a new family of frogs – the first time such a discovery had been made among the anurans in ...

The introduction of invasive trout, combined with a lethal fungus, decimated populations of what would become the rarest ...

The so-called “devil frog” had a bite so powerful, it may have been able to snack on small dinosaurs. Weighing about 10 ...

Frogs trapped in amber for 99 million years are giving a glimpse of a lost world. The tiny creatures have been preserved in sticky tree resin since the end of the Age of the Dinosaurs. The four ...

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The team was actually on the hunt for dinosaur fossils ... "It’s starting to help narrow the timeframe in which a frog becomes a frog," said Ben Kligman, a paleontologist at the Smithsonian ...

The ancient devil frogs may have snatched lizards, small vertebrates, and possibly even hatchling dinosaurs with their huge mouths and powerful jaws. Scientists announced Beelzebufo in February ...