Amphibians are animals that live both in water and on land. Frogs and salamanders are representative examples. However, there ...

Palaeontologists have identified the first known fully marine member of the amphibian stem lineage, a new species named Gerrothorax maritimus, based on two nearly complete skeletons from Late Triassic ...

Whether it occurs through the discharge of nutrients from agricultural operations into local streams or the discardment of plastic into the ocean, water pollution can negatively impact both human and ...

Amphibians are in trouble and in desperate need of conservation action, according to a new global assessment of the world's amphibian population. Salamanders are experiencing the greatest decline in ...

You’ve heard of a “frog in your throat,” but probably not like this. By Asher Elbein On a hike through a sweaty Peruvian jungle in 2016, Kim Roelants, a biologist at Vrije University Brussel in ...

Amphibians bounced back spectacularly from a series of mass extinctions during their evolution, according to a new genetic analysis. In the present day, biologists see amphibians as sentinels of ...

Amphibians are increasingly vulnerable to global warming, according to new research. Scientists will be able to better identify what amphibian species and habitats will be most impacted by climate ...