As winter fades and spring arrives, Connecticut’s wetlands, ponds, and forests come alive with the calls of frogs and toads. These amphibians are an important and often overlooked part of the state’s ...

In Madagascar, frogs are not background noise. They are a measure of how much forest still functions. The island holds an ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

A single week in late October 2025 produced a wave of new species discoveries across five countries, all connected by camouflage strategies so effective that the animals evaded scientific detection ...

Amphibians and reptiles face an unprecedented global extinction crisis, with a significant proportion of species threatened with disappearance. Amphibians ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now ...

Fossils that lay almost forgotten in museum collections for over 40 years have now shed light on the earliest global radiations of land-living animals adapting to life in the sea. Around 250 million ...

A new study has uncovered how strange amphibians that once lived in north-western Western Australia became early evolutionary ...

The ancient marine amphibians Erythrobatrachus (foreground) and Aphaneramma (background) swimming along the coast of what is now far norther Western Australia 250 million years ago.

The temnospondyl discovered on Noonkanbah station was called Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis. It was named in 1972 by Cosgriff and Garbutt based on three fossil skull pieces that were retrieved on ...

Amphibians and reptiles are among the most vulnerable vertebrate groups to environmental perturbations, with a significant proportion already facing ...