On a sweltering afternoon in northeastern Madagascar, the coolness of a leaf’s shade is an attractive respite for a frog. But some of these oases may hide hungry architects: huntsman spiders. New ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Tet Zoo needs more frog articles. Too short ...

Josh’s Frogs, an Owosso-based business that has grown into one of the world’s largest online amphibian breeders, last month ...

It was almost midnight in the Peruvian Amazon when scientists from the University of Michigan heard a scratching noise in the leaves and saw a dinner plate-sized tarantula dragging an opossum along ...

Spiders eat a wide variety of animals, but scientists were shocked to discover a new, tiny spider that appears to hunt and devour tadpoles. Field biologists were taking a survey in Ratnagiri, a city ...

Meet Pembrokeshire’s newest resident - Lucky - labelled ‘the luckiest frog on the planet’ - after the amphibian was literally ...