The question of why females mate with multiple males has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. A new study of African foam-nest tree frogs, led by University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers, reveals ...

African frog clade under the microscope He narrowed his focus to frogs in the clade Afrobatrachia, a group that study co-author David Blackburn, curator of herpetology at the Florida Museum, has ...

On some summer mornings in southern Africa, strange white bundles can be spotted hanging from branches above ponds and marshes. They look out of place, almost as though pieces of cloud have drifted ...

Nectophrynoides luhomeroensis is one of the new toad species from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. It gives birth to live young, bypassing the tadpole stage. In addition, you’ll notice from the ...

Jongsma is the lead author of a new study, conducted by researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History and published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, which shows that even though it's been ...

Afrobatrachian frogs account for roughly half of all frog diversity in Africa, and their modern distribution is significantly influenced by a global climate event that ended 12,000 years ago. Why are ...