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The silver-eyed species was discovered in a remote alpine meadow in Papua New Guinea’s Star Mountains, according to a study.
AT HOME IN the flooded caves of northern Vietnam and China, the mossy frog (Theloderma corticale) owes its survival to its brilliant camouflage.With warty skin of green, brown, and the occasional red, ...
We used microphones to monitor the Cape peninsula moss frog (Arthroleptella lightfooti) in Table Mountain National Park, South Africa. These frogs are endemic to the area and occur nowhere else on ...
The name comes from the frog’s unique physique, which truly looks exactly like moss. These frogs are very aquatic and arboreal, Edgar said. The sticky pads on their feet act ...
Known as moss frogs, these small amphibians employ camouflage as one way to keep predators at bay, in some cases resembling the moss that gives them their name.
Mossy Frogs have been described as having one of the 'best camouflages' of the amphibian world. Covered with mottled green and brown skin, the Vietnamese animals are almost indistinguishable from ...
New species of frog: the cloaked moss frog (Theloderma palliatum). Photo by: Jodi J. L. Rowley/Australian Museum. Researchers have discovered two new frog species living in the montane tropical ...
In its new crowd-pleaser of a show, "Frogs: A Chorus of Colors," the American Museum of Natural History in New York highlights a range of freaky amphibians, ... to the Vietnamese moss frog, ...
Rogers used Vietnamese Mossy frogs as examples. About 2-3 inches long, the frogs are hard to see because they blend in with the moss in their habitat. So are the Solomon Island leaf frogs.