I’ve shared news of several species of extremely tiny frogs and toads, commonly known as flea-toads or toadlets (read more here and here). These tiny amphibians are remarkable because they are much ...

A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frog on a tomato. In North America, there are about 101 species of frogs and toads, including tree frogs, leopard frogs, bullfrogs ...

Brachycephalus dacnis is the seventh species of flea toad identified and is larger only than an individual of a closely related species found in southern Bahia state, Brazil. The study published was ...

Look for them in the grass, especially near freshly watered lawns and near waterways. At first glance you might think it’s a small bug. New toads start out very small and they can be hard to identify.

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The new species of horned toad was found in China, researchers said. Shu G, Li K, Wu Y, Liu Q, He Z, Li L, Zhang H, Guo P via ZooKeys A minuscule, brownish-red creature sat atop a fern in a ravine in ...

A toad that has not been seen in Yosemite National Park in 11 years was reintroduced to the park this week by San Francisco Zoo officials. Zoo officials said in a Facebook post that 118 Yosemite toads ...

When researchers trekked through a tiger reserve in India, it wasn’t the big, striped cats that piqued their interest. Instead, it was a handful of small toads hidden in rock crevices that grabbed ...