The purple frog, or Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, spends nearly its entire life underground in the Western Ghats of India. Though it’s lineage has been around long enough to have witnessed ...

The Seychelles are to the east of the African continent, while India sits firmly on the continent known as Asia, and it’s in a new series of the same name that the purple frog recently starred.

The frogs usually emerge around the middle or end of May. But in this particular year, a cyclone hit southern India, causing a deluge of rain almost a month before the purple frog’s emergence ...