These three bird courtship displays are so bold, precise and theatrical that they make human romance look a little ...

Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

When women are harassed on the street they might avoid eye contact or wear headphones to drown it all out. In the animal ...

Males engage in a two-week-long sex marathon with as many females as they can find. Each frenzied encounter can last up to 14 ...

Northeast India is home to some of the world's most unique and rare species because it has so many different kinds of plants ...

Discovered in the forests of Brazil, Brachycephalus lulai – a new species of pumpkin toadlet frog – is named after the ...

A rare toad changed the fate of a river by becoming the first amphibian to halt a hydroelectric dam. It's now in trouble.

The admirable little red-bellied toad is the size of a thumb, but it has achieved giant feats: In 2014, it prevented the ...

Now scientists have formally described it as a new species: Brachycephalus lulai, a pumpkin toadlet found only in a small stretch of cloud forest in the Serra do Quiriri, in Santa Catarina. The ...

In a new study, 79 percent of black-spotted pond frogs successfully consumed the northern giant hornet. Shinji Sugiura / Kobe University For a mouse several times its size, a sting from the “murder ...

It was a hectic time in Elkan’s life, and the Sierra Leone-born producer’s phone was constantly buzzing. Taking refuge from the barrage of calls, he began singing repeatedly in the shower: “Who’s ...