Read by Chetna Pandya from the BBC Radio Drama Company. Legend has it that, many thousands of years ago, there was a Barbary monkey who lived in a huge mango tree in Morocco. Close by there lived ...

But frogs may yet hold clues to killing pain. At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), whose skin is laced with the peptide dermorphin. Although the ...

Many scientists believe the red-eyed tree frog developed its vivid scarlet peepers to shock predators into at least briefly questioning their meal choice. These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep ...

Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program spent three weeks traversing the rainforests of Honduras, discovering ...

A juvenile American tree frog (Hyla cinerea) of unknown age was presented to the Exotic Service at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine for an acute onset of swelling of the left ...