Researchers have described Rana shii sp. nov., a medium-sized brown frog from Chongqing, China, that forms an independent ...

Researchers have discovered in China’s Guizhou Province two nearly complete skeletons of an amphibian that lived in the sea ...

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Camera trap studies in Yasuni National Park revealed that ocelots are primarily nocturnal predators utilizing mineral licks ...

There are more than 8,000 species of modern amphibians. None of them call the ocean home and less than 2% of them are able to ...

A heavily armoured amphibian may have lived in the sea around 237 million years ago, offering new clues about how early vertebrates adapted to saltwater, according to a report by Nature. Researchers ...

‘Gerrothorax maritimus’ lived about 237 million years ago, when parts of China were covered by an ocean.

Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret that they agreed to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed ...

Identifying individual animals in the wild has long meant tagging, branding or clipping. For amphibians, the standard ...

For an Amazonian treefrog called the egg-eating spiny-backed frog ( Osteocephalus oophagus), we need to look into their eyeballs. Fine black radial lines cross their golden irises, and form a pattern ...