Biologists have, for the first time, documented the widespread presence of the notorious chytrid fungus in 80 species of frogs from lowland rain forest sites in the Peruvian Amazon. The chytrid fungus ...

Deep in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, scientists have identified afrog species that had remained invisible to science until now. Named Adenomera varcena, the newly described amphibian ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of poisonous frog—brightly colored and measuring just a few millimeters—in the Amazon, according to a Peruvian government agency in charge of environmental ...

Scientists have discovered a new frog species, Adenomera varcena, in the seasonally flooded forests of Brazil’s western Amazon, revealing previously unknown amphibian diversity.

Scientists recently described a new species of a tiny brown frog found in the Amazonian floodplain forests of Ecuador and northwestern Brazil. It looks nearly identical to related species but its slow ...

Scientists from Brazil and other countries have discovered a previously unknown frog species in the flooded forests of the western Amazon, highlighting the region's largely unexplored biodiversity and ...

A new frog species has been formally described from the seasonally flooded forests of western Amazonia, adding another piece to the region’s remarkable amphibian diversity. Named Adenomera varcena, ...

When Alison Davis Rabosky, Ph.D., and her team started swabbing frogs to look for evidence of a devastating disease, they didn’t expect to find much. They were wrong. In the lowlands of the Peruvian ...