Alsodes vittatus had disappeared from scientific records and proven elusive for more than a century before its recent ...

The construction of a road near Cambridgeshire revealed thousands of frog remains from a 46-foot-long ditch at an ancient ...

Frogs can breathe through their skins, but it is a vulgar error to suppose that they can bury themselves in sludge and sleep for centuries. After a miner named Ollie ...

A Rare Window Into Prehistoric Frog Reproduction One of the most fascinating aspects of this discovery is the likely cause of death. Lead researcher Baoxia Du, a paleontologist at Lanzhou ...

the so-called "devil frog," may be the largest frog that ever lived. These beach-ball-size amphibians, now extinct, grew to 16 inches (41 centimeters) in length and weighed about 10 pounds (4.5 ...

Three frog species in Central America have also been declared extinct. Even more, an additional 22 frog species across Central and South America were listed as critically endangered or possibly ...

A frog species, Alsodes vittatus, believed extinct since 1893, has been rediscovered in Chile. Scientists from the University ...

frog legs. Now, a group of more than 500 environmental ... Companies are even trying to revive extinct Tasmanian tigers to undo the part humanity played in the species’ extinction.

But today these hardy survivors of freezing, high-elevation winters are vulnerable to a host of modern threats. In fact these frogs are extinct in more than 93 percent of their old mountain homes. The ...

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The discovery highlights the importance of luck in scientific exploration and adds to our understanding of prehistoric life ... or Wei’s tree frog. Photo from Shize Li via Liu, Peng, Wang ...