A brilliantly orange frog small enough to sit on your fingernail spent years hiding from scientists in plain sight deep in ...

Pumpkin toadlets look exactly like what their name suggests. Less than half an inch-long, these tiny, orange frogs hop around the sweltering forests along Brazil’s Atlantic coast. But how many species ...

Being small has its advantages ... and some limitations. One organism that intimately knows the pros and cons of being mini is the pumpkin toadlet. As an adult, the animal reaches merely the size of ...

In the dense greenery of the Atlantic Forest along Brazil’s east coast, scientists have discovered a new species of tiny frog, just a little bigger than a thumbnail. The new species, Brachycephalus ...

Biologists have discovered an adorable 'pumpkin' toadlet in a Brazilian tropical rainforest, previously unknown to science. The amphibian has a startlingly orange body with distinctive green and brown ...

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 ...

Brachycephalus ephippium is the scientific name for a tiny South American amphibian species. They are, however, more affectionately known as pumpkin toadlets. These cute little creatures have been ...