Three species of frog which went extinct in the UK are making a return. The frogs went extinct as they were hunted and used ...

Nearly 600 California red-legged frog tadpoles that were raised at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach were released into streams in the Santa Monica Mountains, marking a hopeful step in ...

Endangered galaxy frogs have disappeared from a study site in the Western Ghats, India, after several groups of tourist photographers allegedly destroyed the amphibians' habitat and handled the ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego marked the occasion as its first ever species reintroduction. The frogs were released into the San Bernardino Mountains in a ...

For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a vanished species, ...

There was a moment in 2008 when Michael Mahony realised the ambitious project he'd signed up for years earlier might actually work. Looking under a microscope, a few tiny brown cells had begun to ...

The endangered northern leopard frog species is showing positive signs of recovery after surviving the first winter in the wild within the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Washington, the ...

Galaxy frogs are endangered by flash photography, handling, and habitat disruption. Learn how tourism is harming this fragile ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the Cretaceous forests of ancient Madagascar, one frog ...

Curitiba, Brazil used to be forests, wetlands, fields and streams before it was developed over the last half-century. Gilberto Jacob via Unsplash As new species are discovered around the world, others ...