By Shanna Hanbury Amphibians in Brazil’s Pantanal, one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse wetlands, could lose huge swaths of their habitat as the region dries out from climate change, a new ...

Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

In the winter months of eastern Brazil, temporary streams offer a home for a new species of frog. Mângia, et al (2025) Journal of Vertebrate Biology In the eastern Brazil state of Bahia ...

According to a paper published today (June 15) in Science Advances, pumpkin toadlets (genus Brachycephalus, and they’re actually frogs) from Brazil have evolved to such diminutive size that there ...

This is the tree frog Hypsiboas semilineatus, common throughout the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

They are found in freshwater marshes and pools throughout the Amazon Basin, from Colombia to Brazil. Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what ...

the coqui frogs modify conditions to favor invasive plants, such as strawberry guava (native to Brazil). Coqui frogs also bolster populations of nonnative birds. Beard found that populations of ...

and Greening's frog (Corythomantis greeningi). Both are found in Brazil and produce skin secretions like other poisonous frogs - but these species have spiny bone protrusions that make their poison ...

The frog’s back is “predominantly gray” with ... The Serra do Assuruá is in the north-central region of the Bahia state of Brazil, on the country’s east coast. The research team includes ...