Once they near emergence, the female's thin skin bulges and pulsates with the struggles of the impatient froglets. The day comes when she gives a shrug and the cells rupture, releasing tiny but ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania that give birth to fully developed toadlets. A key element of the study was ...

Most frogs lay eggs that hatch into tadpoles, but high in Tanzania’s misty mountain forests, a group of toads has abandoned this amphibian tradition entirely. Scientists have just described three new ...

Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...

Researchers from around the world have made a very cool toad-related discovery. They identified three previously unknown species of toads native to Tanzania, East Africa, who have the particularity of ...

An international team of researchers have identified three new species of enchanting, pustular, tree-dwelling toads from Africa. Their solution for having offspring away from water? Skipping the ...