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 ...

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 ...

Researchers say they've discovered the world's first shape-shifting amphibian, a tiny frog in Ecuador that can alter the texture of its skin from smooth to spiny in just minutes. The changeable ...

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.

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.