A new species of amphibian that lived 150 million years ago has been discovered in Portugal. The tiny animal was one of the earliest species belonging to a mysterious group of amphibians that lived ...
After more than a year’s secret development, the Loening Amphibian made its first public appearance when it left the water of the East River at 31st street, Manhattan, as a flying boat, and alighted ...
The overachieving Wallace's flying frog wasn't content to just hop and swim. Thousands of years of watching birds navigate the rain forest and avoid predators by taking to the sky appears to have ...
These endemic species from Mexico are in the Ambystomatidae family. They are endangered. Image via Amandasofiarana, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...
The giant salamanders of the Far East are by far the biggest amphibians on the planet. The Japanese giant salamander, known locally as hanzaki, grows up to 1.5m long from warty nose to chunky, ...
The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) holds the distinguished title of being the world’s largest amphibian. Reaching lengths of up to 1.8 meters (5.9 feet), these fascinating creatures ...
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, ...
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