Amphibians are cold-blooded vertebrates that typically have four limbs and live part of their life in water and part on land.

Another special feature of most amphibians is their egg-larva-adult life cycle. The larvae are aquatic and free-swimming—frogs and toads at this stage are called tadpoles. At a certain size ...

Few swimmers realize they're taking a dip in the home of one of North America's most endangered species — the Barton Springs salamander. An entirely aquatic amphibian, this salamander is uniquely ...

Our goals were to assess the effects of four PFAS commonly associated with AFFF use on aquatic and terrestrial life stages of three North American amphibians: Northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens), ...

Few swimmers realize they're taking a dip in the home of one of North America's most endangered species — the Barton Springs salamander. An entirely aquatic amphibian, this salamander is uniquely ...

Parents are often confused about what they are, but the fully aquatic amphibians are popular with kids. Video games and memes have made the animal well known. SARASOTA, Fla. - Two axolotls just ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

But she has a special love for amphibians, which usually hatch from eggs in the water and then divide their life cycles between the aquatic and terrestrial worlds. She traces her devotion to the ...

Tis the season for the many varieties of amphibians, and April is National Frog Month – a way to bring attention to the need ...

They are among the most wide-ranging of all North American amphibians, found in freshwater ponds, lakes, and marshes from Nova Scotia, Canada, throughout the continental United States, and as far ...

When the winter snow melts and the spring rain begins, vernal pools appear on the landscape. These ephemeral wetlands form in ...