Thousands of amphibians are dying in the Americas because of the lethal fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which causes a disease called chytridiomycosis. Some of the most affected species ...

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.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These 2-inch-long frogs live in a very specific part of the rainforest inwestern Colombia. The poison on their skin is called ...

A team of scientists ventured deep into the rain-soaked Panamanian forest on a mission to restore wild populations of a critically-endangered amphibian. Brian Gratwicke It was like working in a shower ...

A brilliantly patterned Chachi tree frog was featured on the cover of the international scientific journal 'Nature' this week ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of ...

Poison frogs appear to have built their chemical defenses gradually: related frogs store low to moderate levels of ...

The golden poison dart frog may be tiny, but it has earned a formidable reputation in the animal kingdom. Native to a small region of rainforest in western Colombia, this brightly colored amphibian is ...