Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

For anyone who recently visited the University of Wyoming Berry Biodiversity Institute, they may have noticed that its ambassador animals -- an assortment of amphibians and reptiles -- have new and ...

The bones are relatively undisturbed and seem to be arranged in much the same way they were positioned when the animals died. This suggests the amphibians perished in calm waters and were gently ...

It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...

Over 40% of amphibian species worldwide are already marked as endangered, and new research from UNSW Sydney scientists ...

Credit: Dave Lovelace, CC-BY 4.0 Around 230 million years ago, at least 19 alligator-size amphibians expired together on an ancient floodplain in what is now Wyoming. The animals' fossilized remains, ...

Also called the "Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko" ...

Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Aaron M. Kufner of the University of ...

Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive list on the global extinction risk of animal, fungus, and plant species. Recent estimates show that of the 166,000 species on the Red ...

With temperatures in the upper 50s and moist ground conditions, many amphibians are now migrating from their winter refuge ...