They’d discovered a new species: Scinax juruena, or the Juruena snouted tree frog. Juruena snouted tree frogs are considered “small,” reaching just over 1 inch in length, researchers said.

Like many species of frogs, the thorny tree frog is found in different color morphs. This is a dark variant. Photo by Jodi Rowley/Australian Museum Research Institute.

A researcher has identified a colorful tree frog as a new species and named the amphibian Sylvia’s tree frog, Cruziohyla sylviae, after his 3-year-old granddaughter. Andrew Gray, Curator of ...

Poison dart frogs sport different warning patterns depending on what signals the predators in their areas are used to, explaining why there is so much color variation in one species of frog.

Scientists in Western Australia have found a tree frog which is bright blue, rather than the usual green, due to a rare genetic mutation. The blue magnificent tree frog was spotted in the Charnley ...

Known as Zhangixalus yunnanensis, or the Yunnan tree frog, the new species was distinguished by other, similar species by its skin color, eye color, body size and its DNA, experts said. They named ...