Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean ...

Salamanders are amphibians, not reptiles. There are over 700 species of salamanders globally, but all are classified as ...

Kubah National Park, in Borneo, is home to some of the world's smallest and most unusual frog species. Visitors from around the world have been trekking through the rainforest on the hunt for the ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for delaying critically needed Endangered Species Act ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

While lawyers have always moved between in-house and private practice, some believe that firms are increasingly alive to the benefits of hiring those that have worked as GCs or le ...

Could humans be capable of growing new limbs? Scientists are trying to figure that out with the aid of an unexpected resource ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

They recorded the amphibians they saw every rainy evening along the road during migration season. Over 5,270 amphibians were documented, including 12 species of frogs, toads, and salamanders. Of the 1 ...

Amphibians—the most threatened vertebrate class on Earth—are under enormous pressure, with 41% of all species already threatened with extinction. A new study from the Faculty of Biological ...

Amphibians are ectothermic, meaning they use the environment they are in to regulate their internal temperature. Mammals, on the other hand, generate internal heat to stay at the right temperature.

In reality, many amphibians live in disturbed habitats, where shade and water are in short supply. If global temperatures rise by 4°C, the number of vulnerable species jumps from 2% to about 7.5%.