Amphibians aren’t usually known for their parental care. When an amphibian does look after its eggs or young, it’s usually the mother’s job. But new research suggests the Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) is no deadbeat dad. Leer más.
A toad from the Andes mountains that had long been thought extinct and was known only from a single museum specimen collected in 1970 has resurfaced in Ecuador. Leer más.
Crocodiles are a close living relatives of birds, but compared to their feathered cousins, they are stuck in the past, scientists claim. Leer más.
Meet Glyphoglossus molossus, also known appropriately enough as the balloon frog. It’s a burrower, though not much else is known about it other than it’s in trouble. In Southeast Asia, it’s being over-harvested as a source of food, and accordingly the IUCN has labeled it as a near-threatened species. Leer más.
Bush frogs of the genus Raorchestes are distributed mainly in the Western Ghats Escarpment of Peninsular India. The inventory of species in this genus is incomplete and there is ambiguity in the systematic status of species recognized by morphological criteria. Leer más.
