The first animals that were ancestors of whales are thought to have been deer-like mammals that could walk on land about 50 million years ago, and over time, they evolved into the ocean dwellers we're ...

FILE - A researcher holds a Coqui Guajon or Rock Frog (Eleutherodactylus cooki) at a tropical forest in Patillas, Puerto Rico on March 21, 2013. A study published Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in the ...

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The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened with ...

This tiny creature has recently been described by scientists after hundreds of bone fragments were uncovered at the site in western Portugal. The new species has been named Nabia civiscientrix in ...

More than 40% of the world's frog, salamander and other amphibious species are threatened with extinction, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. The comprehensive survey of global ...

An international research team has unveiled significant findings regarding the locomotion of elongated amphibious animals. The researchers developed an innovative model that explains how elongated ...

The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened with ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and ...