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Panamanian golden frog on leaves in forest

Endangered Species

Panama’s golden frogs beat extinction

a small orange frog sits on a pencil tip for scale

Teeny tiny orange toadlet found in Brazil

By Laura Baisas

Frog eating hornet in cage

Pond frogs devour murder hornets, stinger and all

Close up of tree toad

Endangered Species

These toads don’t start as tadpoles

Clay sculpture of two frogs from Caral civilization

An ancient frog statue’s secret message

a small frog on a road, with a person's bright sneakers in the background

Wildlife underpass reduces squished amphibians by 80%

By Laura Baisas

a large American bullfrog in water with vegetation

This invasive frog can fit baby turtles inside its mouth

By Margherita Bassi

a split image of two newly discovered poison dart frogs. the one on the left has yellow legs with brown spots and green-ish stripes. the frog on the right has a brown body with light blue stripes

It’s raining tiny toxic frogs

By Lauren Leffer

a tiny green frog looking up from water

Endangered Species

Frogs rescued from a deadly fungus welcome 33 froglets

By Laura Baisas

a tadpole swimming

A rock in Argentina turns out to be the oldest tadpole fossil ever found

By Laura Baisas

a small frog with light green coloring and dark spots sits on a green leaf

Seven new frog species named for their ‘Star Trek’-esque calls

By Laura Baisas

Legend of the linguistic experiment by Psamtik I.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The ‘forbidden experiment’ is an infamously evil chapter in scientific history

By Popular Science Team

Green and gold bell frogs in artificial hotspot shelter.

Frog saunas could help the amphibians cope with a deadly fungus

By Lauren Leffer

‘Lungless’ frog species actually had little lungs all along

‘Lungless’ frog species actually had little lungs all along

By Harriet Weber