A frog found in the cloud forest of Ecuador has a neat trick -- it can change the texture of its skin, and it's the first vertebrate known to do so. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A local graduate student and her husband have found a shape-shifting frog in Ecuador that changes its skin texture from spikey to smooth in mere minutes. It is believed to be the ...

This frog shape-shifts Link Copied! The mutable rainfrog, dubbed "The Punk Rocker," is the first discovered vertebrate with the ability to transform from smooth to spiny skin.

Deep in the rain forest of Ecuador lives a very indecisive frog. On a nighttime walk in 2009, scientist Katherine Krynak spotted a well-camouflaged, marble-size amphibian that was covered in spines.

A frog in Ecuador's western Andean cloud forest changes skin texture in minutes, appearing to mimic the texture it sits on. Originally discovered by a Case Western Reserve University PhD student and ...

“Punk rocker” may sound like the name of a ’90s grunge band, but it’s actually the newly acquired nickname of a shape-shifting frog discovered in the Ecuadorian Andes. A married couple of researchers, ...