Deep in India’s Western Ghats, scientists discovered a bizarre, burrowing frog with shiny purple skin and a snout resembling a pig’s nose.

Bhupathy's Purple Frog: Body of a Frog, Nose of a Pig Bhupathy’s purple frog ... Nasikabatrachidae family co-existed with the dinosaurs in Gondwana, which included Seychelles and India. Bhupathy’s ...

The purple frog also has an unusually pointed snout with smaller eyes. To top it all off, the purple frog has horizontal pupils in those tiny eyes, and its body looks like a balloon filled with gas.

Read the full text of Kermit the Frog’s May 22, 2025, University of Maryland commencement address (voiced by muppet performer Matt Vogel).

The new research has excited others in the field, including Zoos Victoria's senior biologist herpetology, Nick Clemann, who has been studying frogs since the late 1990s. Photo shows A pig-nosed ...

These tiny animals may fit on a dime, but they are the hardest to conserve.

In our house, reading with our two children is a big part of their bedtime routine. We've read some books many, many times.

But now lets look at another one of my tied-for-first, best ways to catch ‘em—the slop frog bite. This is exactly the kind of thick, sloppy vegetation where a lot of bass live during the summer.

The world is home to many tiny creatures. Paedophryne Amauensis is the smallest vertebrate. Paedocypris fish lives in acidic ...