A study detected unprecedented mortality in the Atlantic Rainforest among tiny frogs that live on land, with signs of infection by chytrid fungus. The episode…
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Frog eggs like those pictured here release zinc when fertilized, much like mammalian eggs do. Credit: Image by Tero Laakso/licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Scientists…
Most fossil albanerpetontids are crushed or in disarray. This CT image shows an exquisitely preserved adult albanerpetontid skull that is helping researchers re-envision these extinct…
This image shows the front of the upper jaw showing the tooth related glands. Credit: Carlos Jared Brazilian researchers discover that caecilians, limbless amphibians resembling…
A magnified image of the mouth of a ringed caecilian, Siphonops annulatus, reveals snake-like dental glands. Researchers from Brazil’s Butantan Institute and Utah State University…
This image shows a general view of the ringed caecilian, Siphonops annulatus. Credit: Carlos Jared Caecilians are limbless amphibians that, to the untrained eye, can…
A group of Russian and German paleontologists have described a previously unknown genus and species of prehistoric salamanders. The new amphibian is named Egoria malashichevi…