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McGill University researchers, in collaboration with Mexican scientists, have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the atoll of ...
Four adorable western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise babies are now on display at Philadelphia Zoo after their 100-year-old 'Mommy' reproduced for the first time.
In 2009, a research group led by Dr. Keiichi Kakui at the Faculty of Science discovered a rather unusual small crustacean ...
Take a look at the incredible barreleye fish and learn why they have a transparent forehead and glowing green eyes.
Did you know that there are over 3,000 different species of centipedes, and scientists believe that there could be 5,000+ ...
Which U.S. state is home to the most unique salamander species? Discover the state that leads in salamander diversity, ...
Legend has it the Eastern hellbenders slithered here straight from hell and But in the age of humans, that evolutionary asset ...
one of the museum’s curators of amphibians and reptiles. de Queiroz agreed that it looked odd, further noting that while its neighbors were stick-thin and had brown scales, USNM 5095 had a ...
Dubois, Wyo. - A team of scientists just uncovered a 230-million-year-old grave of giant amphibians from a site just outside of Dubois. “We found a bone bed, so a bone bed is essentially defined as ...
A wood frog, just one of many examples of the amphibians that will be crossing a road near you this spring. Photo credit: Sarah LaValley, assistant director of the Northampton Office of Planning and ...
A prehistoric floodplain in Wyoming has revealed a mass grave of giant amphibians, frozen in time for 230 million years. The creatures discovered belonged to the extinct group known as temnospondyls, ...
All data is passed on to Froglife (the national amphibian charity), the West Yorkshire Ecological Service, the Yorkshire Amphibian & Reptile Group, and Wharfedale Naturalists’ Society. The WNS helped ...