The Cape May County Library System presents Zoophoria NJ, an educational experience about reptiles, amphibians, and ...

A species of worm-like amphibian has been caught on camera feeding milk to its young. The creature, known as a caecilian, lives underground. Researchers believe that the animal developed the ability ...

Amphibians are in trouble and in desperate need of conservation action, according to a new global assessment of the world’s amphibian population. Salamanders are experiencing the greatest decline in ...

The Journal of Herpetology publishes original research articles on the biology of amphibians and reptiles, with emphasis on behavior, conservation, ecology, evolution, morphology, physiology, and ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Polar bears. Giant pandas. Mountain gorillas. In the last several decades, these endangered animals have attracted attention—deservedly so—but what about the smaller, less ...

A Brazilian flea toad’s head is too tiny to bear its many crowns. Solé, of the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz in Ilhéus, Brazil, and colleagues discovered the diminutive male amphibian among 46 ...

The study of helminth parasites in amphibians encompasses a broad range of parasitic worms including nematodes, trematodes and cestodes. These organisms, adapted to exploit amphibian hosts, play ...

Little is known about the zombie frog and its cousins. They are rather plump with narrow mouths and pointed noses. The small, nocturnal amphibians of the genus Synapturanus live mostly underground.