NEW DELHI — For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a ...

Researchers have rediscovered populations of tree frogs in several northern Indian states and China that were presumed extinct for 150 years. The frogs are unique enough to merit their own genus – the ...

Trees in the sweet-gum family Altingiaceae are well-known for their quality timber, use as ornamentals, the source of styrax, and from Chinese medicine. The three previously recognized genera ...

Botanists discover new species of plants relatively frequently, but describing a new genus may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

A team of Indian, Chinese, Indonesian and Thai researchers have found a new genus of frogs in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and India’s northeast, according to November 12 issue of Zootaxa, an ...

NEW DELHI, Jan. 21 (UPI) --A group of tree frog species scientists thought had gone extinct has turned out to be rather abundant in India and elsewhere in Asia. The golf ball-sized frogs were ...

Coming 150 years after the last description from Sulawesi, five new species from the world's largest genus of trees, Syzygium, highlight the extent of unexplored botanical diversity on the Indonesian ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a ...