A tiny burrowing frog that lives underground in the Amazon, known to local people as the 'tapir frog' because its long nose, has been given an official scientific description. The people of Peru's ...

This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Jeff DelViscio. Today: part two of our three-part sound escape series to the Amazon rain forest. In this episode, we’re going into the dark. Make ...

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 ...

A bizarre new species of frog with a 'tapir-like' nose for burrowing underground has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest thanks to its 'beeping' calls. The new species, found at the lower ...

Germán Chávez is no stranger to the Amazon rain forest, where he says "one can't help but get excited" by all the reptiles and amphibians that he has made a career out of studying. But when he came ...

The Amazon basin is well known for its wide variety of species, but the rainforest might owe some credit to the mountains as a source for that rich diversity. A new study found that populations of ...

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a German research team from Kiel University used high speed cameras to capture the incredible gymnastic feats of the Amazon milk frog in slow motion. The ...

Biological resources from plants and animals have long been used by Indigenous communities for medicinal and therapeutic purposes. Western science is quickly catching on, but in the process of ...

Secretions isolated from the skin of a frog from the River Amazon have the potential to deliver completely new treatments for type II diabetes. A South American tree frog is in the unlikely position ...

The people of Peru’s Comunidad Nativa Tres Esquinas have long known about a tiny, burrowing frog with a long snout; one local name for it is rana danta, “tapir frog” for its resemblance to the ...