It’s orange, fluorescent, and the size of a thumbnail. Meet the newly discovered amphibian Brachycephalus rotenbergae, a type of pumpkin toadlet found in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. The animal belongs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pumpkin Toadlets are among some of the world’s smallest frog species (Ivan Nunes) It’s poisonous, it glows green under ultraviolet ...

Although there’s plenty of ecological distress to worry about in Brazil, the country still has a veritable cornucopia of wildlife; one so veritable, in fact, a new species of plant or animal pops up ...

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In a study published Wednesday in PLOS ONE, a team of Brazilian researchers detail how they collected samples of pumpkin toadlets in the forests of Brazil. Researchers carried out a series of analysis ...