The brightly colored species had been misidentified in museum records and field observations since 1988, according to a study.

A dyeing poison frog showing off its bright colors. Photo by Bernard DUPONT The conspicuous colors of poison frogs are presumed to be a warning. Indeed, vibrant patterns so often signal toxicity that ...

Following an examination of iris patterns in 960 frog species across 47 families, K S Seshadri, S Gangothri, and Maria Thaker noted that, surprisingly, irises were not correlated with where a frog ...

The colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining why ...

Thalassa Matthews receives funding from The National Research Foundation and the Centre of Excellence for Palaeontology. Around 5.1 million years ago, fascinating and now extinct animals like ...

1. The effects of habitat fragmentation on the distribution pattern of the moor frog Rana arvalis were investigated. Also, the possible isolation effects of the road network were taken into account. 2 ...