It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for ‘closed,’ and for nearly all of human historythis vast tropical savanna ... in lushness to the mighty Amazon rainforest to the north, the green ...

"I've never seen an Ornate cat-eyed ... tropical places, there is a chance that hitchhikers could be on board. However, it is typically small lizards, like anoles, frogs or invertebrates ...

A rainforest ... frogs’ backs before hunting. ©Dirk Ercken/Shutterstock.com These frogs, members of the Dendrobatidae family, are found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America.

As night fell across a rainforest in northwestern Ecuador, a “large”-eyed creature with a “heart-shaped” tongue perched on ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with a ... collected over 130 of these Ecuadorian tree frogs by combing museum archives, searching the rainforest and raising some eggs in captivity ...

As night fell across a rainforest in northwestern Ecuador, a “large”-eyed creature with a “heart ... set out to study the hourglass tree frog, a “small, brightly colored species” found ...