who say the unusual colouring is probably due to a genetic mutation causing it to lose certain skin pigments. As its name suggests, the magnificent tree frog (Litoria splendida) is already a ...

While some frogs call the great outdoors on six continents (excluding Antarctica) home, others are domesticated, kept as pets ...

But frogs may yet hold clues to killing pain. At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), whose skin is laced with the peptide dermorphin. Although the ...

There’s no denying that frogs are super cool creatures, and one of their most intriguing traits is their ability to change ...

Of all vertebrates, gray foam-nest tree frogs exhibit the most extreme form ... while females in the pools absorb water through their skin. When she’s hydrated enough, a female heads for an ...

They are also distinguishable by a row of skin flaps along their arms and legs, which resembles a serrated knife. Green-eyed tree frogs are abundant in the rugged wet tropics of northeast ...

and Ranwella's horned tree frog (Polypedates ranwellai). P. ranwellai belongs to a genus of frog known to have deadly tetrodotoxin in its skin secretions - although to date the Ranwella's horned tree ...