The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is ...

Amphibians also have special skin glands that produce useful proteins. Some transport water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide either into or out of the animal. Others fight bacteria or fungal infections.

Amphibians, a group that includes frogs, toads and salamanders, depend on water for mating and egg-laying, but often live ...

"Amphibians are the world's most threatened animals," Duke University frog researcher Junjie Yao, who was not involved in the study, told The Associated Press. The biggest threat to amphibians ...

By Suzana Camargo Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known ...

These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep by day stuck to leaf ... may play a similar role in thwarting predators. Many of the animals that eat red-eyed tree frogs are nocturnal hunters that ...

Though amphibians and reptiles represent some of the most rapidly disappearing species on Earth, they've long been underrepresented when it comes to wildlife protection. So in 2010 the Center made ...

Vertebrates, for example, are divided into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Mammals are warm-blooded animals with hair or fur and can produce milk to feed their young. They have ...

Amphibians are land animals, but can only reproduce in water. They prefer to live in and around small bodies of water. But this habitat is becoming increasingly rare—in Germany alone ...

In anticipation of the crossing, the town has agreed to close a portion of the road for one night during the frog-pocalypse in order to grant them car-free passage across the road.