Female spadefoot toads flout the general evolutionary rule of not breeding with other species. Under some conditions they mate with other species to help boost the survival rates of their offspring.
India harbours 230 known species of amphibians, which include frogs and caecilians. The Western Ghats region is unique in amphibian diversity due to extraordinary endemism and special evolutionary relationships the amphibians of the area have with other b
Zoologist Andrew Gray from Manchester Museum has rediscovered Isthomhyla rivularis in the remote forests of Costa Rica in Central America many years after it was last seen.
The yellow-legged frog population in the Willamette Basin or Oregon has gone from very abundant to almost completely extirpated in less than 50 years. A few dozen breeding-age yellow-legged frogs in two sites are all that remain.
A major threat to Tasmania's unique frog species has breached the borders of the South-West World Heritage Area for the first time. New research to be published by zoologist Matthew Pauza has placed the fungal disease chytrid at two sites within the remot
Five endangered species of reptiles and amphibians in the Pinelands will have concrete tunnels as part of their habitat under a highway-widening plan finalized by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. A $135 million project to widen 17 miles of the Garden St
In the heart of Jerusalem, a new species of amphibian was discovered. It was a decade before it was officially recognized. Unfortunately, the new tree frog's natural habitat was destroyed even before its discovery was officially recognized, and it may alr
The newts of the Zagros Mountains, especially the genus Neurergus, are extremely sensitive to environmental change because they live in marginal conditions. It is likely that the rate at which newt species are declining in abundance has been underestimate
Deforestation of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil fell by about a third in the 12 months through July to the lowest rate in at least seven years. An estimated 9,600 square km (3,707 sq miles) of the world's largest rain forest were cleared in the year end
Up to half of the world's 6,000 amphibian species are so threatened by disease, pollution and climate change that the globe's zoos and aquariums plan this week to declare 2008 The Year of the Frog to rally international support.