Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Jambato harlequin frog has been teetering on the edge ...

Limosa harlequin frogs en route to the field for release. Roshan Patel, National Zoo Scientists released 90 captive-bred Limosa harlequin frogs in the Mamoní Valley Preserve, a key habitat for the ...

Discover how global warming affects harlequin frogs, linking climate change impact to their extinction and disease spread in frogs. Since the 1980s, scientists have observed that frogs and toads have ...

A group of scientists and amphibian enthusiasts from Michigan State University, Ecuadorian schools, and indigenous communities worked together to find the harlequin frog species Ecologists have ...

A Brazilian woman travelling to Sao Paulo via Panama has been charged with wildlife trafficking after 130 Harlequin frogs were seized from her luggage. The alleged smuggler was arrested at Bogota’s El ...

A brilliantly-colored frog has been rediscovered 14 years after its last sighting in a remote mountainous region in Colombia. The critically endangered Carrikeri Harlequin frog (Atelopus carrikeri), a ...

MELVILLE, N.Y. — From Costa Rica to Peru, a fungal epidemic fueled by global warming may have wiped out dozens of frog species in otherwise pristine environments, a new study concludes. Within the ...

Several teeny-tiny frogs, one big hop for amphibian conservation. Scientists have successfully bred a certain type of endangered Panamanian amphibian — the limosa harlequin frog — for the first time.

Endangered amphibians such as the limosa harlequin frog (Atelopus limosus) now have a tiny bit of hope to cling to thanks to a captive breeding program run by a collaboration between conservation ...