Cricket frogs are pretty small and would fit on the thumb of an adult human's hand, yet they possess extraordinarily fast motion. To record how they were traveling over the water, the team set up ...

They caught a few of these “large” frogs and, after taking a closer look, realized they’d discovered a new species: Minervarya ghatiborealis, or the Mahabaleshwar cricket frog. A Minervarya ...

K P Dinesh, scientist, ZSI, and co-author of the study, said, “The newly discovered species, being a large-sized cricket frog, belongs to one of the ancient lineages among its related members.