How does a thin-skinned, cold-blooded creature survive a below freezing Colorado winter without a fur coat or a ticket south? Frogs, toads, and salamanders are all examples of amphibians, a ...

Scientists have detected snake-like dental glands in caecilians, which means these serpentine creatures might actually be venomous—an unheard of trait among amphibians. Caecilians secrete a substance ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the oldest evidence of a slingshot-style tongue, a new Science study shows. Despite having lizardlike ...

Caecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife officers captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal, the first example of an introduced caecilian in the U.S.

The skull possesses a mishmash of traits that were different from features seen in the skulls of older tetrapods, the ancient ancestors of amphibians and other living four-legged vertebrates. For ...

Amphibians across the tropics are facing a global decline, with disease caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) playing an especially significant role in losses. According to ...

A new study uncovers a hidden online trade in amphibians that exposes regulatory gaps and threatens wild populations.

Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the oldest evidence of a slingshot-style tongue, a new study shows. Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as ...