Frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians are not just battling habitat loss and pollution they're now also contending with increasingly brutal heat waves and droughts. A sweeping 40-year study shows a ...

Learn how two Field Museum interns identified Jeanerpeton in a Mazon Creek fossil and what its toe pads reveal about early ...

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Neurergus kaiseri, also called Luristan newt, is listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species. Paul Starosta via Getty Images Amphibians ...

If you walk through a forest at night, you see only darkness and shadows, and perhaps the smudgy outline of trees against the sky. But if you were a salamander snuggled in the leaf litter, under the ...

Two hundred and thirty million years ago, in what's now Wyoming, the seasons were dramatic. Torrential rain would pelt the region for months on end, and when the mega-monsoon ended, the region became ...

Parental care for offspring occurs in many animals and is an essential part of the reproduction, propagation and development of an organism. An international research team from Brazil, the U.S. and ...

Summer is here and those cool lake and river waters are calling your name. Weekend plans of fishing, kayaking and swimming are schemed. Packing lists are made. Food is purchased. All that’s left to do ...

(WFRV) – State wildlife officials are asking Wisconsin drivers to keep an eye out for reptiles and amphibians crossing local ...

Amphibians and reptiles are cold-blooded animals. Amphibians live in water and on land. Reptiles primarily live on land. Amphibians have moist skin and lay eggs in water. Reptiles have scales and lay ...