A new fossil study shows that frogs from the genus Eleutherodactylus are geologically the oldest Caribbean vertebrates to be found in Florida. They made the journey 20 million years ago, when much of ...

April 8 (UPI) --The discovery of a tiny arm bone suggests the coquí frog has been living in the forests of the Caribbean for at least 29 million years. The ancient arm bone -- described Wednesday in ...

Nearly all of the 162 land-breeding frog species on Caribbean islands originated from a single species that rafted on a sea voyage from South America about 30-to-50-million years ago, according to a ...

Nearly all of the 162 land-breeding frog species on Caribbean islands, including the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico, originated from a single frog species that arrived on a sea voyage from South America.

Urgent action is needed to save one of the world’s largest frogs from one of the world’s most devastating wildlife diseases as the latest survey finds just 21 individuals remain in the wild A ...

PATILLAS, Puerto Rico -- A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the ...

Deep in the forests of Haiti lives the blue-eyed La Hotte glanded frog (Eleutherodactylus glandulifer), which once went 20 years without being observed by scientists. It belongs to a diverse genus ...