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Climate change threatens amphibians globally with extreme weather destroying breeding habitats and increasing mortality.
Scientists identified a hidden "sixth sense" in geckos that's upending up what we thought we knew about animal hearing.
From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...
Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...
A study has found the economic burden of invasive species is 1646 per cent higher than previously recorded, with an average ...
a group of animals that today includes mammals, birds, and reptiles. Its ancestor tetrapods – notable for their four limbs – split into two groups, amniotes and amphibians. While amphibians ...
In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a lizard or salamander ...
Across Earth’s many landscapes and oceans, life has formed in patterns that might not be obvious at first. While it may seem like species are scattered randomly, a new global study suggests there’s an ...
a group of animals that today includes mammals, birds, and reptiles. Dogs Dog's candid pictures from daycare have her owner crying with laughter Its ancestor tetrapods – notable for their four limbs – ...
Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...
Habitat loss, diseases, pollution, and climate change are already massively affecting amphibians – frogs ... that are causing problems for the animals. Here, it is mainly salamanders that ...
Thousands of animals, from mountain lions to newts, are killed each year due to vehicle collisions. Traffic is even partially to blame for population declines in some species. Amphibians are ...