It was an ambush predator, sitting on the bottom and surprising its prey.

Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from UC Davis; Peking University; and the Geological Museum of Guizhou. The amphibian is an armored, giant ...

Amphibians rely on their permeable skin for the crucial functions of breathing and drinking, a wonderful adaptation in freshwater that is subverted by the salt in seawater. As a result, there has been ...

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 ...

In a recent paper published in Biological Conservation, iDiv researchers suggest that given amphibians' ability to act as "canaries in the coal mine" for aquatic environments, they should be ...

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 ...

The Surinam toad is one of the strangest frogs on Earth. Flat-bodied, tiny-eyed and adapted to the murky waters of the Amazon basin, it hunts well despite having very poor vision. When a fish swims ...