Turtles can be confusing animals, since they have characteristics that are traditionally associated with both reptiles and ...

Frogs are not reptiles, although the mistake is understandable due to the commonalities between reptiles and amphibians.

This clip could be used as an introduction to amphibians and metamorphosis. Pupils could be asked to list the characteristics of amphibians and compare them with characteristics of other animals.

The discovery of the new amphibian species could provide some answers to how frogs and salamanders evolved to get their special characteristics today, the authors wrote in the paper. “ ...

a primitive amphibian that lived more than 200 million years ago mainly during the the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods. The one-inch-long fossil has many unique characteristics that ...

The research team included 201 small bodies of water in seven European countries in the study and defined certain characteristics for each pond. The species diversity of the amphibians was ...

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 ...