What if one of the most iconic “living fossils” has been misleading evolutionary biology for decades? The African coelacanth, ...

The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite ...

Protecting large swaths of Earth’s land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss—including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a new study published in Nature ...

Amphibian means double life. What kind of double lives do these creatures live? Idaho is home to 37 different kinds of amphibians and reptiles. Amphibians were the first land vertebrates. Once the ...

Vertebrates that had already begun adapting to terrestrial life—including amphibians closely related to Fedexia striegeli —became far more abundant, widespread, and diverse than their ...

The team evaluated the status of 8,011 species of amphibians tracked by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Their findings, published this week in Nature, indicate nearly 41 ...

Amphibians remain more threatened with extinction than any other vertebrate group. About 41 percent of amphibian species, which include frogs, toads and salamanders, are threatened with extinction ...

A new global assessment of the world's amphibians finds that more than 2 of every 5 known species is at risk of extinction. Habitat loss, disease and climate change are the main drivers.

A new study maps for the first time the evolutionary history of the world's terrestrial vertebrates: amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. It explores how areas with large concentrations of ...

Amphibians are a class of cold-blooded vertebrates that include frogs, toads, salamanders and newts. They live on all continents across the globe except for Antarctica and have porous eggs and ...

The discovery would mark the first time venom glands have been found in the mouth of an amphibian — one whose evolutionary history predates the appearance of snakes by more than 100 million ...

Protecting large swaths of Earth's land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss—including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a study published in ...