Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

A major class of vertebrate species is experiencing widespread population declines due to climate change, according to new research. Amphibians, the most threatened class of vertebrates, are ...

Protecting large swaths of Earth’s land can help stem the tide of biodiversity loss—including for vertebrates like amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds, according to a new study published in Nature ...

Chytridiomycosis, the worst vertebrate disease in recorded history, has already wiped out hundreds of amphibian species globally. Only species in Africa seem to have been relatively spared this ...

Amphibians have one more thing to worry about--mercury Date: October 30, 2023 Source: U.S. Geological Survey Summary: The first widescale assessment of methylmercury in adult amphibians in the U.S ...

Caecilian amphibians are one of the least known vertebrate groups. The researchers were able to observe that the females of egg-laying amphibians, such as the species Siphonops annulatus, provide ...

The Global Amphibian Assessment is the second of its kind. The first assessment was completed in 2004, offering scientists a baseline of data to measure extinction risk for this latest study.

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

But it’s possible that these species are just the tip of an extinction iceberg. There are more than 185 other amphibians that haven’t been seen for decades, and while there’s not enough evidence to ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...