When frogs hit the road, many croak. Researchers found more than 65 animal species killed along a short stretch of roads in a Midwestern county. Nearly 95 percent of the total dead were frogs and ...
Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...
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 ...
Nov. 18 (UPI) --The planet's vertebrates aren't doing as poorly as previous surveys have suggested. According to a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, declines in global vertebrate ...
Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...
The world's most popular weed killer, Roundup®, can cause amphibians to change shape, according to new research. The world's most popular weed killer, Roundup®, can cause amphibians to change shape, ...
Aquatic chytrid fungi threaten amphibian biodiversity worldwide owing to their ability to rapidly expand their geographical distributions and to infect a wide range of hosts. Combating this risk ...
In contrast to the extremely limited regenerative capacity of the adult human heart, certain fish, amphibians and neonatal mammals can fully recover cardiac function after injury. The sparse ...
Amphibians, reptiles, mammals -- all of them communicate via acoustic signals. And humans are able to assess the emotional value of these signals. The authors interpreted their findings as evidence ...