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A video of a massive, banana-guzzling frog, easily the size of its owner’s head, garnered over 20 million views on TikTok. But it was all thanks to movie magic, according to its creator.

The recent discovery of a new frog species in a niche habitat in Sri Lanka’s cloud forest has highlighted the need for conserving the Indian Ocean island’s dwindling montane habitats.

The tiny frog sits easily on a US dime, whose diameter is 18mm A frog species that appears to be the world's smallest has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a US-based team. At 7mm (0.27 ...

A Cuban tree frog pokes its head out of a fountain in Kelly Cockerham's Tampa yard. “I saw him and was like, ‘Dude, you can stay. You are so cute,’” Cockerham said.

Frogs fill a vital ecological niche as the consumers of many insects and as a food source for larger animals. The 7,500 poached frogs in this situation get to return to that niche.

In 1993, frogs were found dying en masse in Far North Queensland. When scientists analysed their bodies, they found something weird. Their small bodies were covered in spores. It was an epidemic.