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India’s secretive salamanders are losing their breeding grounds

Subhrajit Sen, Soham Das 17 Feb 2026
Galaxy frogs in the Western Ghats. Image by K.P. Rajkumar/ZSL.

Photo tourism threatens rare galaxy frog population

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jan 2026
A painted balloon frog at Mallathalli lake. Image by Seshadri K.S.

What expanding cities are doing to frogs and toads

Aisiri Amin 16 Dec 2025
To find out how well the toads themselves recognise mating colour signals, researchers recorded the skin colours of toads gathered at a rock pool and fed the data into a computer model that simulated toad vision, revealing they could easily detect the contrast between yellow males and the brown females. Image by Susanne Stückler and Doris Preininger.

Male toads get a monsoon makeover to stand out from the crowd

Sandhya Sekar 23 Oct 2025
A Jerdon's bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus crassus) spotted in Coochbehar, West Bengal. When it rains, this species is one of many that sings. Image by Kingshuk Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Listening to frogs can offer clues to their decline [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 5 May 2025
Researchers collect samples of moths and other insects in Siang, Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Sandesh Kadur/Felis Images (CC BY-ND 4.0).

Retracing the route of a century-old biodiversity expedition

Simrin Sirur 3 Apr 2025

Farms, fields threaten frogs in lateritic plateaus

Arathi Menon 19 Dec 2024

The curious case of a frog and a fungus

Arathi Menon 1 May 2024

Named after their habitats, three new frogs add to Arunachal’s biodiversity

Arathi Menon 1 Jan 2024

Genetic insights of the Kempholey night frog offer better conservation strategies

Neha Jain 30 Nov 2023

Habitat loss due to tourism in the Western Ghats pushes endangered frogs to the edge

Spoorthy Raman 6 Jun 2023

Why the dancing frog may no longer be able to shake a leg

Deepa Padmanabhan 13 Apr 2023

Leatherback turtles under threat as government considers ‘development’ in Little Andaman

Rosamma Thomas 12 Apr 2021

Frog discovered in the Eastern Ghats also found in the Western Ghats, more than 1000 km away

Aathira Perinchery 27 Oct 2020

A new addition to the Walkerana genus

Mike Gaworecki 13 Mar 2020

Bringing freshwater turtles out of their shells and into the spotlight

Aditi Tandon 6 Mar 2020

New frog species from unexplored Jharkhand and Bihar brings cheer

GBSNP Varma 16 Sep 2019

New frog species discovered in biodiversity-rich Western Ghats

T. V. Padma 18 Mar 2019

World Wildlife Day: 6 stories to know more about life below India’s water bodies

Aditi Tandon 1 Mar 2019
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A ‘mysterious’ new frog species with hidden spots and an insect-like call

Sandhya Sekar 20 Feb 2019