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 ...
Saving Amphibians From Deadly Fungus Building captive colonies for eventual re-introduction to the wild, scientists from Atlanta rescue endangered frogs and other amphibians threatened with ...
The suspicion that amphibians were declining in numbers, and that some species were beginning to disappear, first surfaced at the inaugural World Congress of Herpetology in Canterbury, United Kingdom, ...
Saving Amphibians From Deadly Fungus Building captive colonies for eventual re-introduction to the wild, scientists from Atlanta rescue endangered frogs and other amphibians threatened with ...
"We never expected to find one of the rarest amphibians in the world," said Dr. Kanto Nishikawa, a herpetologist at Kyoto ...
The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...
The Kihansi spray toad is a tiny, vibrant amphibian that was once found only ... The species was declared extinct in the wild in 2009, and though we chalked it up to a fungal disease, the true ...
Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats face extinction ... 23 percent of amphibians and reptiles, and 16 percent of dragonflies. Fish swimming in ...
More than 40% of the world's frog, salamander and other amphibious species are threatened with extinction ... The nearly 41% of endangered amphibian species compares with 27% of mammals, 21% ...