When glass frogs emerge during the rainy season, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute follow their migration out of the forest and along streams. These transparent leaf-lying ...

Three Bolivian Cochran frogs, a species of so-called "glass frogs", were spotted by conservationists earlier this month in a national park. The tiny amphibians weigh just 0.7-0.8g and measure 19-24mm.

The amphibians are at the mercy of mining operations that are destroying their ecosystems, but local communities throughout South America are fighting back In Ecuador, a glass frog from a new ...

Suctioned to a leaf bottom in the rainforests of South and Central America, glass frogs seem to vanish in plain sight—the transparent skin of their undersides erasing the hard edges of their ...

Now, these frogs have been identified as two new species, and the findings were published Aug. 20 in the journal PeerJ.