Study: Caribbean frogs stem from abroad
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More than a hundred species of tiny land-breeding frogs in the Caribbean evolved from a single South American species that probably hitched a ride on a raft of vegetation and washed up on an island beach, according to scientists who spent decades collecting tissues from the colorful hoppers.
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A third of the world&#39;s amphibian species are in danger of extinction, according to the first-ever global survey of the animals.
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Studying the zebra fish spinal cord, grooming habits of the Barbary macaque and the regional impact of dams.
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Canadian researchers say they've discovered an unanticipated way in which freshwater fish might respond to water diversion and climate change.
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KINGSTON, Aug 5 (IPS) - For the small, developing economies of the  Caribbean, the world trade body's preliminary ruling against  European Union sugar comes as more bad news for a beleaguered  sector, and highlights a seeming paradox these countries often  face in the global trade arena.
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This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Chris Austin&rsquo;s fieldwork takes him to some of the most inaccessible places on Earth in the pursuit of knowledge about the diversity of the world&rsquo;s amphibians and reptiles. He serves as assistant curator of Herpetology and assistant professor of Biological Science at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Science. This story relates some of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of field work in remote New Guinea.
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Researchers studying DNA from 500-year-old bone slivers said Friday that preliminary data suggests that Christopher Columbus might be buried in Spain, rather than in a rival tomb in the Dominican Republic - but ...
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Scientists find what appears to be a cure for the disease that is wiping out many of the world's frog species.
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Over the last 5,000 years, the eastern Caribbean has experienced several periods in which strong hurricanes occurred frequently despite cooler ocean temperatures.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  CHEME, Thailand - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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A tiny frog with a huge shriek has invaded the Big Island and won't shut up. Big Island Mayor Harry Kim is looking for &#36;2 million to begin controlling the spread of the nocturnal coqui frog, a beloved native in Puerto Rico but considered an annoying pest in Hawaii since hitching a ride over in shipments of tropical plants around 1990.
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A leatherback turtle has chalked up a new migration record after covering more than 12,000 miles
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Thomas Handwerker leans close to a young orchid, just over from China, to inspect its deep green leaves. He knows exactly where a long, flowery spindle will sprout. He's a career horticulturist, but he doesn't know a thing about growing phalaenopsis orchids. Handwerker is counting on farmers along the eastern shore region of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia to do the work of cultivating this brood of 30,000 orchids.
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A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said. If authenticated, the preserved frog would be the first of its kind found in Mexico, according to David Grimaldi, a biologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the find.
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As explorers investigated the world in centuries past they began pondering a puzzle called the "latitudinal diversity gradient." That's science talk for: The farther you go from the tropics, the fewer different kinds of plants and animals there are.
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Amphibians are experiencing a precipitous decline across the globe, according to the first comprehensive world survey of the creatures, which include frogs, toads and salamanders.
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By Prasanna Raman  * ON the editorial floor where I sit, often a frog's croaking is heard. The first time I heard it, my colleagues and I thought a frog was moonlighting as a journalist here. But, it was just the journalist's cell phone's ringtone.