Researchers who complain about testy librarians, unreasonable intellectual-property laws, or uncomprehending customs officials might want to meet the frog hunters of the Zoology Museum at the ...

A group of scientists and amphibian enthusiasts from Michigan State University, Ecuadorian schools, and indigenous communities worked together to find the harlequin frog species Ecologists have ...

A new species of frog discovered in Ecuador is the first vertebrate known to change its skin texture from smooth to spiny, researchers say. The mutable species of rain frog possesses an ability ...

QUITO, Ecuador— Environmental groups filed a legal brief today urging the Provincial Court of Imbabura in Ecuador to halt all environmental permits for a mining project because the government failed ...

It seems like newly-discovered animal species are being described and named in scientific journals regularly. With that in mind, it shouldn’t come off as much of a surprise to anyone that researchers ...

Poachers in Ecuador have long known the hefty prices their country's rare frogs can fetch. But now environmentally conscious firms are starting to sell the amphibians too -- to try to save them from ...

Hyalinobatrachium ruedai (© Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia); Centrolene durrellorum (© Mario Yánez-Muñoz); Nymphargus cochranae (© Roy McDiarmid); and Centrolene Mariaelenae (© Jesse Delia). Seven ...

Conservationists in Ecuador have taken a controversial approach to fighting the country’s illegal frog trade—they’ve entered it themselves. Instead of poaching frogs from the wild, biologists working ...

Quito, May 5 (EFE).Quito, May 5 (EFE). — Toads and frogs are opening the way for biomedicines in Ecuador with an ambitious project to find the medicines of the future in amphibians. The Jambatu Center ...

After a new frog species was discovered in Ecuador, it wasa named after Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, according to a report in The Telegraph. Ecuador's new frog species, ...

A team of biologists surveying a remote and largely unexplored part of the Andes in Ecuador have described a new species of tree frog that’s dark brown in color, with bright orange flecks dotting its ...