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Lost world of birds and frogs: Scientists open a million-year-old cave time capsule in New Zealand, where 12 bird species and four frogs reveal a lost world reshaped by volcanoes and climate long before humans arrivedA remarkable fossil discovery in a New Zealand cave has unveiled a lost world of ancient birds and frogs, dating back one million years. Th...
Forget deadbeat dads: These devoted spiders guard their babies, and science finally knows whyCitizen science data from iNaturalist, combined with decades of fieldwork, has revealed the complex evolutionary history of parental care i...
Meet the 2-billion-year-old giant that stretches 14km long, towers nearly 3km into the sky, and hides a hairy carnivoreMount Roraima, a flat-topped mountain on the Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana border, is an ancient and otherworldly place. Its isolation has ...
8 fascinating things you probably didn't know about the rat snakeDiscover the surprising intelligence and ecological importance of rat snakes, America's original pest control. These non-venomous constrict...
Leonardo DiCaprio now has a frog species named after him. Here’s whyScientists in Ecuador have named a newly discovered frog species, Phyllonastes dicaprioi, after Hollywood actor and environmental activist ...
New frog species found in Meghalaya caveThe team named the new species as Amolops siju after the cave from where this discovery was made and the description of the new species was...
- Newly discovered frog species named after renowned plant geneticist
'Clockwork Orange' frog species named after Stanley KubrickThe newly discovered frog species with orange blotches on its limbs has been named after American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's crime film 'A...
New species of 'see-through' frog discovered
Indian scientists discover four new species of smallest known frogs from the Western GhatsUnlike other frogs in the genus that are predominantly stream dwelling, the new miniature frogs were found under damp forest leaf litter or...
2016: India's year of dancing tadpoles and sorting hat spidersIn April this year, researchers discovered a new tadpole that burrows through sand and live in complete darkness in streambeds in the Weste...
Tiny frog species discovered in Manipal and Mangaluru- This frog species lived under the wrong name for nearly 200 years
Nearly 200-years-ago, Paris-based naturalist Tschudi described a new species of frog from the Malabar region in India that secreted foul-sm...
New frog species discovered in GoaA group of city scientists has discovered a new leaping frog species on the edge of the Netravali wildlife sanctuary in Goa.
- New life, new hope for Manas National Park
Western Assam’s Manas National Park which also covers a part of Bhutan has excited conservationists.
New frog species shatter gender stereotypesMale parenting may be recent in humankind.But male members taking care of their brood is not new to the animal kingdom.
Delhi University professor leads discovery of 14 new 'dancing frogs'A team of scientists led by Delhi University professor Sathyabhama Das Biju aka 'frogman of India' has discovered 14 new species of dancing...
- Amphibians in troubled waters on home turf
India has the sixth largest number of endemic species of amphibians that are under threat.
- New frog species discovered in New York city
A new species of frog has been discovered in the bustling city of New York amid the skyscrapers and subways, which scientists say is "nothi...
- New frog species found in Western Ghats
A new species of frog has been found near Anaimudi, the highest peak in south India, in Western Ghats. Named Raorchestes, the species is mo...