Amphibians are small vertebrates that need water, or a moist environment, to survive. The species in this group include frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts. All can breathe and absorb water ...

A survey of the larvae of Japanese wasps revealed that not only is their diet more diverse than previously thought, it also ...

After a brief rain 350 million years ago, a reptile pressed its claws into the ground. Its tracks now show the oldest-known ...

Vertebrates can be fish, reptiles, mammals, birds and amphibians. This cockroach is called a hissing cockroach and it's a type of invertebrate. Invertebrates have no backbone. Insects, spiders and ...

Captive-bred axolotls can adapt to both restored and artificial wetlands, but face dangers from predators and rising temperatures.

Led by Uppsala & Flinders universities, the study published in Nature credits citizen science for the find & suggests ...

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...

And from those first lumbering steps, it appears, came the whole parade of terrestrial vertebrates: amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals, including those that later returned to the oceans.

These animals were the first tetrapods - meaning "four feet" - and they were the forerunners of today's terrestrial vertebrates: amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds. Footprints in Poland ...