All posts tagged frogs

We’ve been on quite a trip following Conservation International’s RAP crew and now it is time to end our journey by going BIG. This final post

Looks like bats aren’t the only animals named after creatures that go bump in the night. Rhacophorus vampyrus, a frog first discovered in 2008 in South Vietnam,

If you ever look up into the canopy of a South American rainforest you might catch a glimpse of a Glass Frog (Centrolenidae centrolenidae), which has skin that

Frogs, like the Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor), can survive freezing cold temperatures for really long periods of time. By studying these species researchers hope to figure out

Nearly one third of the approximately 6,000 known amphibian species are threatened with extinction.

2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and

The world’s smallest frog, called (Microhyla nepenthicola), has been found in Borneo and, as you can tell from the picture, scientists would have had to squint to find

Across 18 countries, the search is on to find…frogs! Yup you read that right amphibian experts in 18 countries have set-out to find 40 rare

Some of the world’s rarest species got some extra attention in the Wildlife Conservation Societies’ State of the Wild edition, a report that highlighted species that