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, including the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico, originated from a single frog species that rafted on a sea voyage from South America ...

Many Jamaicans have a somewhat superstitious fear of anything slippery and slimy — in other words, amphibians and reptiles. Lizards (in particular the endemic Jamaican Croaking Gecko, Aristelliger ...

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 ...

In the misty and lush forests of Dominica and Montserrat, there's an unusual amphibian that blends right in. Locals call it the ‘mountain chicken,’ but don't let the name fool you - it's not a bird.

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.

The stowaway, which is native to the Caribbean, was discovered some 4,250 miles from its home.

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 ...

A rescue mission is under way in the Caribbean to save one of the world's largest—and rarest—frogs from extinction. Measuring as much as 20 centimeters from snout to rear and weighing up to a kilo, ...

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 ...