This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Jeff DelViscio. Today: part two of our three-part sound escape series to the Amazon rain forest. In this episode, we’re going into the dark. Make ...

Vijayan's night frog (Nyctibatrachus pulivijayani), a 13.6 mm miniature-sized frog from the Agasthyamala hills in the Western Ghats in India, sits comfortably on a thumbnail. It is one of seven newly ...

New species of tiny frogs that can fit comfortably on a coin have been discovered in India. Seven new species of frog – some of the smallest in the world – were found after five years of searching in ...

Back in the Puerto Rican rain forest for the first time in five years, biologist Rafael Joglar sensed something was wrong. He wasn’t hearing the frogs whose nocturnal calls he had long recorded in the ...

The 12 new species include the meowing night frog, whose croak sounds more like a cat's call, the jog night frog, unique in that both the males and females watch over the eggs, and the Wayanad night ...