Safe and damp is key for frogs and toads. A compost heap offers the perfect environment and toads love burrowing in the warm moisture of rotting compost. If you don’t have a compost heap check ...

Amphibians are small vertebrates that need water, or a moist environment, to survive. The species in this group include frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts. All can breathe and absorb water ...

That amphibians are the most imperiled class of vertebrates in the world is largely beyond debate. Such threats as habitat loss and overexploitation for meat or the pet trade are decimating amphibian ...

The feathery gilled pink salamanders stop aging early and can regenerate their limbs. Studying them could be the next step in ...

The young amphibians hungrily gobble it up. While not exactly unprecedented among these strange-looking amphibians, the recent discovery of milk production by one of the order's egg-laying species ...

It does not, however, have an official amphibian, as some young students are now pointing out. Fourth graders at Powell Elementary School are pushing to make the red-backed salamander the official ...

Now a South American worm-like amphibian has been shown to produce milk when its tiny hatchlings nuzzle in and make a ...

What are amphibians and reptiles? Amphibians are frogs, toads, newts and salamanders. Most amphibians have complex life cycles with time on land and in the water. Their skin must stay moist to absorb ...

Andrew Tindall has fired shots at Moo Deng mania. Is he telling fibs about our favorite slippery amphibian or are advertisers ...

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But as they get older, they change so they can live on land. These creatures are called amphibians. Frogs are amphibians. In the spring, female frogs lay thousands of eggs in pools or streams.

Amphibians and reptiles are amazing creatures with clever adaptations that have allowed them to brave the millennia. Consider the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard's scaly hind toes, which resemble ...