On a lonely plateau in India's Western Ghat mountains, an ancient family of frogs has quietly hidden among the fallen leaves for millions of years, evading human detection. Measuring about the width ...

Shrouded in darkness, several wrinkly “dwarf”-like creatures emerged. The camouflaged animals lurked along a mountain stream in India and caught the attention of nearby scientists. Researchers ...

A tiny new frog species discovered in tropical forests of southwest India has been one of a kind for millions of years. Palaniswamy Vijayakumar and his colleagues first spotted the new species one ...

This is Microhyla pulchra, otherwise known as the beautiful pygmy frog. It seems to be doing okay in the wild—it may even be an invasive species—but that’s tough to confirm because of its unique ...