Explore strikingly vibrant animals including red eyed tree frogs and blue and yellow macaws and learn why they evolved such ...

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On average, 52 species of mammals, birds and amphibians are taking a significant step toward extinction each year, a huge new analysis says. But if not for conservation efforts, the march would be ...

When frogs hit the road, many croak. Researchers found more than 65 animal species killed along a short stretch of roads in a Midwestern county. Nearly 95 percent of the total dead were frogs and ...

The discovery of two new species of proto-amphibian in northeastern Brazil has provided new clues about the earliest proliferation of vertebrates on land dating back 278 million years. The geographic ...

High up in a tree sits a bright red vermilion flycatcher. The males of this songbird species use their red feathers to attract females. Meanwhile, an Arizona mountain kingsnake slithers among the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It looked like a cross between a crocodile and a salamander - and definitely was not an animal to be messed with. Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of the earliest ...

Famed British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough has been lending his calming voice to nature documentaries ever since TV was in black and white. And the 89-year-old is still at it. His ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

Animals called caecilians may have been among the first vertebrates on land to lace their bites with venom. By Katherine J. Wu If a worm and a snake had a slimy, scandalous love child, it might look ...

We talk about what an ear even is, how ears have evolved, how they work, and some of the cool ways animals have tweaked their ears to work for their lifestyle. We talk about what an ear even is, how ...

Newly discovered legless amphibians live out their lives in underground burrows, tending their slimy pink young, which emerge from their eggs as miniature adults. If they sound like something out of a ...