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 ...

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 ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Amphibians rely on their permeable skin for the crucial functions of breathing and drinking, a wonderful adaptation in freshwater that is subverted by the ...

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 ...

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 ...