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Justin Claude Rakotoarisoa, project leader and founding member of Association Mitsinjo. Image by Rivonala Razafison for Mongabay.

Justin Claude Rakotoarisoa, a guardian of Madagascar’s amphibians, has died, aged 45

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2026
O. shunkusacha

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk

Astrid Arellano 30 Dec 2025
Jay M Savage. Screenshot from an interview with OTS.

Jay M. Savage, witness to disappearing frogs and builder of tropical science

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2025
The newly described Brachycephalus lulai. Image courtesy of Luiz Fernando Ribeiro.

New miniature bright-orange toadlet found in southern Brazil and named after Lula

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2025

The first amphibian to halt a hydroelectric dam now takes on the climate crisis

Thamys Trindade 22 Dec 2025
Mountain yellow-legged frogs have a wide array of color variations, ranging from yellow and brown to red and gray.

Uphill battle to save California’s endangered mountain yellow-legged frog

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025

The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AI

Associated Press 28 Aug 2025
The truncate-toed chorus frog is a tree-dwelling species endemic to the Philippines with four recognized subspecies. They have expanded toe discs, called pads, on their toes.

Deforestation in the Philippines may have caused infertile hybrids of endemic frogs, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 16 Jul 2025

Scientists describe three new frog species from Peruvian Andes

Kristine Sabillo 10 Jul 2025
El Rincon frog

On a Patagonian plateau, a microendemic frog makes a hopeful comeback

Mark Hillsdon 20 Jun 2025

Warming climate is already too hot to handle for 2% of amphibians, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 8 May 2025
The Cuyaba dwarf frog (Physalaemus nattereri) inflating its rear end to scare away predators. Image courtesy of Felipe Bittioli.

Most frogs in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands to lose habitat by 2100: Study

Shanna Hanbury 17 Apr 2025
Banner image of a Darwin's frog and newborn at London Zoo, courtesy of Benjamin Tapley/ZSL.

Endangered Chilean frogs thrive in London while waiting out deadly fungus

Kristine Sabillo 15 Apr 2025

Longer periods of drought threaten Brazilian amphibians

Suzana Camargo 2 Apr 2025
Winners of 2025 Future For Nature Awards. From left— Anthony Waddle, image by Yorick Lambreghts, Ruthmery Pillco, image by Eleanor Flatt, Kumar Paudel, image courtesy of Paudel.

Future for Nature Award 2025 winners conserve frogs, pangolins, dwarf deer

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2025

New frog species show how geology shapes Amazon’s biodiversity

Sibélia Zanon 19 Dec 2024

One of the tiniest frogs ever is discovered in Brazil, defying size limits

Shanna Hanbury 22 Nov 2024

Study shores up reputation of Bolivia’s Madidi National Park as amphibian haven

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Aug 2024

How an international effort is keeping North America free of a deadly amphibian disease

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jul 2024

Rare mutant blue-skinned frog spotted in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024
In 2021, a resident of the small Ecuadorian town of Simiátug found a male frog putatively belonging to the long-lost species Atelopus guanujo.

A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species

Katarina Zimmer 4 Jun 2024
A Fejervarya iskandari

Java’s frogman reflects on half-century dive into amphibian world

Donny Iqbal 7 Feb 2024

Three new species of frogs found nestled in Madagascar’s pandan trees

Liz Kimbrough 1 Feb 2024

New volcano toad from Mount Kenya reveals an ancient lineage

Ryan Truscott 4 Dec 2023

No animals harmed as wildlife specimen collection goes digital in 3D

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Nov 2023
Mountain Chicken Frog (Leptodactylus fallax)

Sliver of hope as ‘mountain chicken’ frog shows resistance to deadly disease

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Oct 2023

Frogs in the pot: Two in five amphibian species at risk amid climate crisis

Liz Kimbrough 5 Oct 2023
An Andean motmot.

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Justin Catanoso 24 Jul 2023
A Bengal whipping frog (Polypedates taeniatus).

In Bangladesh, microplastic threat to frogs is also concern for rice farming

Farhana Parvin 21 Jun 2023
The purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), an ancient species that lived during the dinosaurs, calls small crevices around rocky streams home. Landslides can alter their habitats drastically. Image by David V Raju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

As tourism booms in India’s Western Ghats, habitat loss pushes endangered frogs to the edge

Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2023

No croak: New silent frog species described from Tanzania’s ‘sky island’ forests

Liz Kimbrough 9 Feb 2023

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