Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look ...

A remarkable 100-million-year-old frog fossil discovered in northwest China is providing scientists with a rare glimpse into the reproductive behavior of prehistoric amphibians. The fossilized frog, ...

One crawled across the rain-drenched ground of what is now Texas more than 270 million years ago, possibly feasting on fast-moving insects. The other endeared himself to millions as the banjo-playing ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia’s earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously, ...

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