Intrigued, the scientists analyzed the frogs and realized they’d discovered a new species: Alcalus fontinalis, or the Indian dwarf mountain frog. The Indian dwarf mountain frog is considered ...

Humans are forever trying to get their rear ends to look either smaller or bigger, but nothing we do—nothing—can make our cabooses as amazing as that of the Cuyaba dwarf frog, or Physalaemus ...

The record-holder for the smallest frog in the world apparently makes up for its miniature size by packing a wallop of poison, research reveals. Investigating these dwarf frogs is painstaking work ...

Researchers named the orange-brown dwarf frog after the Latin words for orange and brown, “aurantium” and “fuscus,” they said. The frog is only known from the area where it was found.

The team has dubbed this newfound amphibian the "starry dwarf frog" (Astrobatrachus kurichiyana) and, according to the team's new paper, which was published today (March 12) in the journal PeerJ ...

While the team saw some starry dwarf emerge at night, the frogs quickly scampered back beneath the leaves as soon as they were confronted with a flashlight's glare, the researchers wrote.