Sep 18, 2017 by News Staff

Temnospondyls — a diverse group of extinct small-to-giant amphibians that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic periods...

Nov 7, 2016 by News Staff

Herbivorous, or plant-eating, mammals have bigger bellies than their usually slim carnivorous counterparts, according to a study led by University of Zurich...

Nov 7, 2015 by Natali Anderson

With the help of ancient fossils unearthed in northeastern Brazil, an international team of paleontologists has identified several amphibian species and...

Mar 24, 2015 by News Staff

Case Western Reserve University PhD student Katherine Krynak, naturalist Tim Krynak of Cleveland Metroparks’ Natural Resources Division, and their colleagues...

Mar 24, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh, UK, has discovered a new species of metoposaurus that lived in lakes and...

Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British scientists have made a surprising discovery after studying how tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and the Western clawed frog...

Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of amphibian biologists led by Dr Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum in Sydney has discovered a new species of flying frog near...

Sep 26, 2012 by Natali Anderson

According to a team of researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, mechanisms learned from the early phase of limb...

Sep 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

German researchers have discovered that the oldest known giant salamander Aviturus exsecratus was able to live on land as well as in water. An artist’s...

May 22, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A new bright yellow frog species has been discovered in the mountains of western Panama by German biologists. This is a male of the new frog species, Diasporus...