Scientists have discovered a promising new approach to fighting cancer in the gut bacteria of a Japanese tree frog, with one ...

A bacterium living quietly in the intestines of a tiny tree frog has done something cancer researchers spend careers chasing: ...

The world is filled with scams and hoaxes. Whether it is a prince in Nigeria saying he will send you millions of dollars, or a scientist claiming to have found the cure for cancer, when things sound ...

When the cold weather comes, I bundle up in a sweater and explore the snow. But my frog friends are never around then. In fact, I’ve never seen a frog in a sweater. I asked my friend Erica Crespi why ...

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 ...

Amphibian species around the world are threatened with extinction by the deadly fungal disease, chytridiomycosis. A simple, low-cost solution to provide warm conditions enabling frogs to clear the ...

ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the muddy rainforest floor, the biologist opened his red Coleman cooler and scooped one up. It was a ...

An unassuming elevator ride to the basement of the Gilbert Biology Building Tuesday transported a group of undergraduates to an unfamiliar and tropical unknown: a lab housing over 500 frogs. The ...

Slimy heralds of hope are hopping around Yosemite National Park. Being a frog hasn’t been easy in the High Sierra or in many other places ever since a fungal parasite began exterminating frogs in the ...