A new study suggests that harvestmen actively attack the slippery amphibians, rather than just scavenging them. The findings ...

The wobbly, lanky arachnids known as harvestmen or daddy longlegs may be overlooked as predators of small vertebrates such as ...

Have you ever wondered how city life affects animals like frogs? A new study reveals that urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop faster —but end up being smaller — than tadpoles from forests, probably ...

It can sometimes seem as if this whole world and everything in it is subject to one large game of chance – and often, that is actually the case. When it comes to evolution and survival of the fittest, ...

Desert rain frogs became internet-famous because of their bizarre squeaky calls that sound more like dog toys than amphibians . These tiny frogs use the high-pitched squeaks as defensive warning ...

frog Amazon rainforest Peru, poison dart frog Ranitomeya ventrimaculata small tropical amphibian kept in rain forest terrarium© Dirk Ercken/Shutterstock.com In a rainforest, small animals survive by ...

Scientists found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between palatable and unpalatable frogs and toads through ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog, Craugastor fitzingeri, in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract ...