Check out our stories here. The Penrissen guardian frog, L. oreibates, makes slow chirping calls and derives its name from the ancient Greek word for “mountaineer,” according to the study.

Now, as researchers studied these frogs across the Malaysian islands, they noticed that frogs previously thought to belong to the smooth species had different calls, according to a study published ...

The Kinabalu guardian frog, or L. kinabaluensis, was “collected under a log, another one on a rock, others on the ground and under leaves in leaf litter,” researchers said.