Madagascar, an island roughly the size of France, is home to about 9% of all the world's frog species. "We've only scratched ...

Scientists have found seven new species of frogs in Madagascar whose high-pitched calls they say are like the “sound effects from the sci-fi television series Star Trek”. Researchers from the ...

Image courtesy of John J. Wiens. A tree frog from Madagascar (Platypelis pollicaris), a species impacted by recent climate change. A Madagascar frog (Mantidactylus femoralis) less impacted by ...

They inhabited the island of Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous, about 65 to 70 million years ago. These largely terrestrial frogs may have been as ill-tempered and aggressive as their living ...