A brand new species of a criticallyendangered miniaturized stump-toed frog of the genus Stumpffia present in Madagascar is called Stumpffia froschaueri after ''the person from the floodplain filled with frogs'', Christoph Froschauer.

Micro organism dwelling on the pores and skin of frogs may save them from a lethal virus, new analysis suggests.

Learned during the evolution of reptiles four times, to resist the effects of poison toads and frogs - with approximately the same molecular techniques. This discovery proved that the struggle between poison and antidote in animals occur in a very small area.