These ephemeral wetlands form in depressions in forests or ridge lines and offer essential breeding habitat to amphibians and invertebrates, including wood frogs, spotted salamanders, and fairy shrimp ...

Dubois, Wyo. - A team of scientists just uncovered a 230-million-year-old grave of giant amphibians from a site just outside of Dubois. “We found a bone bed, so a bone bed is essentially defined as ...

Epicyon haydeni, or Hayden’s bone-crushing dog, roamed North America between 12 and 6 million years ago during the middle to late Miocene epoch. Its fossils have been discovered in at least 12 ...

All data is passed on to Froglife (the national amphibian charity), the West Yorkshire Ecological Service, the Yorkshire Amphibian & Reptile Group, and Wharfedale Naturalists’ Society.

A wood frog, just one of many examples of the amphibians that will be crossing a road near you this spring. Photo credit: Sarah LaValley, assistant director of the Northampton Office of Planning and ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. In an announcement Friday, the zoo said it is “overjoyed” at ...

The four hatchlings which have yet to be named will make their public debut at the Philadelphia Zoo's Reptile and Amphibian House on April 23, which is also the 93rd anniversary of Mommy's arrival ...

If you’ve ever walked the beach and pocketed a neat-looking rock, know that you share something in common with otters. The only difference is that an otter might carry its favorite rock forever, ...

At the recent Osaka-Kansai Expo preview, Kawasaki Heavy Industries unveiled something that seemed pulled straight from science fiction — or perhaps a high-budget video game trailer. Perched on ...

Paleontologists unearth 230-million-year-old mass grave of giant amphibians in Wyoming. (photo credit: Dave Lovelace, CC-BY 4.0) Paleontologists uncovered a 230 million-year-old mass grave of ...

Drought and amphibians are not a viable combination: These animals depend on water and humidity to survive; without that, they may dehydrate in a few hours and die. The Atlantic Forest is home to ...

The four hatchlings weigh between 70 and 80 grams. They are being kept behind-the-scenes, inside Philadelphia Zoo's Reptile and Amphibian House, and are "eating and growing appropriately", the zoo ...