News

A giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant ...
A group of students has been trying to get the state to recognize the blue-spotted salamander for years. Here's why.
And when we took climbing amphibians out of the picture—which in our context are primarily spring peeper frogs—we noticed a 94% decrease in mortality in the treatment areas.” The underpass was built ...
New research finds a pair of underpasses installed under a road that crosses a migration corridor have led to an 80.2 percent reduction in amphibian deaths ...
Amphibians such as frogs and salamanders are incredibly sensitive to changes in their environment. Whether it’s a temperature change or a change in water quality, amphibians are likely to notice.
A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East ...
A massive, extinct salamander with jaws like a vice once roamed ancient Tennessee and its fossil has just rewritten what we thought we knew about Appalachian amphibians. Named Dynamognathus robertsoni ...
Could humans be capable of growing new limbs? Scientists are trying to figure that out with the aid of an unexpected resource ...
Natural Habitats Are Unsurvivable for 2% of Amphibians Due to Rising Temperatures. In a recent study published in the journal Nature, scientists found that out of 5,203 amphibian species, 104 ...
Frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians are not just battling habitat loss and pollution they're now also contending with increasingly brutal heat waves and droughts. A sweeping 40-year study ...
Busy roads are a death trap for migrating amphibians. New research shows rerouting them under the road is a lifesaver.