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Described in 2003, the Indian purple frog is facing heavy threats from habitat loss as its forests are converted to cropland. Researchers monitored part of its range for five years, finding that ...

India is diverse when it comes to wildlife. New research and discoveries keep on happening day to day. An unusual species of frog was discovered in the Western Ghats Mountain range in India. The frog ...

In the verdant countryside of western India along the Arabian Sea, villagers digging a well in a cardamom plantation five years ago were astonished to spot a squat, bulbous purple frog sitting ...

Discovered only in 2003, the unique purple frog has been captured on film for the first time in India’s Western Ghats. A team of biologists from the University of Delhi, led by Dr. Sathyabhama Das ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. The first-ever acoustic analysis of croaking of the elusive purple frogs found exclusively in India's Western Ghats suggests that the unique ...

Scientists have discovered a new and unusual species of frog in the Western Ghats mountain range in India. The frog has shiny, purple skin, a light blue ring around its eyes, and a pointy pig-nose.