Amphibian Apocalypse: Virus vs. Fungus in the Battle for Survival
Scientists have discovered a virus that infects a deadly amphibian fungus, offering hope for combating a disease that has led to significant declines in frog…
Scientists have discovered a virus that infects a deadly amphibian fungus, offering hope for combating a disease that has led to significant declines in frog…
Most detailed and comprehensive family tree to date of frogs created using molecular data. Researchers, including Jeff Streicher, Senior Curator in Charge, Amphibians and Reptiles…
Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall. A 240-million-year-old fossil of…
Wormlike Animals Are First Amphibians Shown To Pass Microbes to Their Offspring A new study on caecilians—a type of amphibian—reveals that their unique skin-feeding behavior…
New geosciences study reveals Triassic fossils that expose origins of living amphibians. A team of Virginia Tech paleontologists, led by doctoral candidate Ben Kligman, have…
A water-borne fungus that has led to the extinction of several species of amphibians that spend all or part of their life cycle in water…
Scientists using the Advanced Photon Source show how ‘zinc sparks’ — the showers of zinc ions released by mammalian eggs immediately after fertilization — also…
Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the oldest evidence of a slingshot-style tongue, a new Science study shows. Despite having lizardlike claws,…
Brazilian researchers discover that caecilians, limbless amphibians resembling worms or snakes that emerged some 150 million years before the latter, can probably inject venom into…
Utah State University and Butantan Institute scientists publish evolutionary findings in iScience. Utah State University biologist Edmund ‘Butch’ Brodie, Jr. and colleagues from São Paulo’s…
Caecilians are limbless amphibians that, to the untrained eye, can be easily mistaken for snakes. Though caecilians are only distantly related to their reptilian cousins,…
They lived on the Earth about 166-168 million years ago, in the Middle Jurassic. The paleontologists found the remains of the ancient amphibian at the…
Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot tougher for the 1,012 additional species of amphibians who have…
New research from Yale University reveals that estrogen in suburban yards is changing the ratio of male and female green frogs at nearby ponds. Green…
The Sri Lankan Kandyan dwarf toad (Adenomus kandianus) was thought to be extinct. It’s still listed as extinct, and hadn’t been seen in almost 135…
Using a molecular test called quantitative polymerase chain reaction, a new study examined 164 preserved amphibians for the presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, finding Bd in…
These colorful photos of two species of Dendrobatidae, from the Reptile House at the London Zoo, feature these critically endangered amphibians in all of their…
The yet unnamed amphibian was discovered by a team of researchers in the ponds and marshes of Staten Island, mainland New York, and New Jersey….