Frogs and toads make up the largest group of amphibians. However, a lot of people are not aware of a Desert Rain Frog. The species, which is mostly found in Namibia and South Africa, is on a ...

Dean Boshoff, 27, photographed the tiny desert rain frog last month while on a camping ... 10km wide in Namibia and South Africa, while walking in the sand dunes. It is listed as vulnerable ...

This isn't the first time that a rain frog has gone viral. In 2013, a desert rain frog was dubbed the world's cutest frog in a viral video that was viewed more than 22 million times. Here's a ...

There are about 6,800 species of frogs and toads. Among those species are the cute — such as the desert rain frog, which had a brief brush with Internet fame thanks to its adorable squeaks ...

If a frog’s scream attracts a cat, dog, or other large animal, it can escape while the two predators duke it out. For such a small amphibian, desert rain frogs are smarter than most give them ...

The desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) has legs that are too short to hop. Instead, it walks. Male frogs of the genus Pipa are known to defend their territory by jumping at and then wrestling ...

Get a little rain in a desert, and all sorts of things can happen - like frogs. In our series "Sounds Wild", NPR is collecting the voices of animals. Today we've got a mob of frogs recorded in the ...

And with the summer rain comes Cecil Schwalbe, the frog man of the desert. "To a biologist, this is mecca, this is heaven," says Schwalbe, a herpetologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.