I write about the world of biology. The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil ... [+] that’s been around since before some of the Earth ...

The purple frog is something of a mystery. It was only formally described in 2003, and not much is known about its behaviour – primarily because it lives almost entirely underground. What little ...

I n 2003, scientists described a new family of frogs – the first time such a discovery had been made among the anurans in around 70 years. Their prize was a weird one, a purple frog described as ...