Anglesey has five “toad patrol” groups, almost half the total number in North Wales. For a few nights each year, volunteers ...

Scientists have uncovered a giant, ancient salamander fossil in Tennessee.

Among the biggest of its kind, this fossil find is helping scientists trace how today’s diverse species are connected.

"We used micro-CT scanning and digital reconstruction to analyze the teeth, which have a unique arrangement of cusps - the ...

Amphibians often get dismissed in the animal meta… but one species might just flip the rankings. Join us as we separate the low-tier frogs from the true top-tier icons.

"This makes Mazon Creek the most complete record of a Paleozoic ecosystem"—an era ... missing stage between the anatomies of primitive amphibians and modern ones, hoping the fossils in the ...

Researchers highlight the importance of systematic excavation methods for such studies. Temnospondyls were a diverse group of prehistoric amphibians that dominated aquatic ecosystems for over 200 ...

Measuring no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) in length, it probably lived in swampy environments and would feed on smaller prey, like insects or small amphibians. The discovery of Eophis ...

A fossil skull of a prehistoric amphibian, found in a 230-million-year-old burrow in Wyoming, turned out to be from an unknown species. David Lovelace In prehistoric times, western Wyoming was a ...

Further exploration has led to the discovery of hundreds more fossilized footprints belonging to prehistoric reptiles, amphibians and insects. Fossils of plants, seeds and imprints of raindrops ...

Ms. Teran’s work on the dictionary continues, and now Eastern Shoshone words she helped document are being used for the name of a new prehistoric amphibian species. That animal once burrowed for ...

These are called the stem tetrapods. They lived an amphibious lifestyle though were not true amphibians. The term tetrapod, meaning "four feet," refers to all land vertebrates. The earliest ones ...