Salamander enthusiasts should be careful when seeking out these animals in the wild, since some of them are poisonous. There ...

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

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

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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%.

Amphibians are the world's most at-risk vertebrates, with more than 40% of species listed as threatened -- and losing entire populations could have catastrophic flow-on effects.