Miniaturized frogs form a fascinating but poorly understood group of amphibians. They have been exceptionally prone to taxonomic underestimation because when frogs evolve a small body size they start ...

Three Madagascan frog species catalogued in a recently published PLoS ONE study boast a fittingly witty set of names. As lead author Mark Scherz, an evolutionary biologist at Munich’s ...

Miniaturized frogs form a fascinating but poorly understood group of amphibians. They have been exceptionally prone to taxonomic underestimation because when frogs evolve small body size, they start ...

These newly-described miniature frogs are the smallest of their kind in the world, and they also have very appropriate names. Two other new species, Rhombophryne proportionalis and Anodonthyla eximia, ...

How many ways can you say “tiny?” How about miniature, miniscule, and minimum, for starters? These adjectives not only describe three new species of frog from Madagascar, but also serve as their ...

Consider the male tree-hole frog of Borneo, which uses his watery den like a pipe organ to proclaim his sexiness far and wide. Evolution has surely outdone itself over the millennia in endowing this ...

Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to these amazing amphibians. There are currently around 7,600 known species ...

Mark D. Scherz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...