In the forests and wetlands around the ruined Chernobyl reactor, a small amphibian has quietly rewritten the script on how ...

By landing mostly upright, the frogs spread out the hitting force so it doesn't hurt them as much. This helps them survive in real forests where branches can be any size or shape.

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...