It's a small act that makes a big difference for these amphibians, who need different habitats for different stages of their life cycle — sometimes wetlands, sometimes drier uplands. Roads often ...

6b06055. Water quality assurances, detailed pesticide sampling protocols, the number of replicates per treatment per species, and amphibian body size measurements (Tables S1 and S2) (PDF) ...

In Australia, for example, the yellow-footed antechinus, a small, mouse-like marsupial, hides in its deep, rocky burrow in a state of torpor until the fire burns out. Frillneck lizards stay out of ...

When an animal hibernates, it goes into a state of sleep or minimal activity. Hibernation allows many animals to survive ...

They found dozens of giant amphibians, temnospondyls, that died together approximately 230 million years ago. The fine sediments suggest a floodplain environment where calm conditions allowed for ...

Scientists now believe that echidnas enter a kind of torpor (an extreme lethargic state) as the fire passes. They hide out in deep underground burrows where they can tolerate temperatures of 35–40°C ...

Habitat loss, climate change make it tough to be an amphibian — but there’s help (Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology and The Associated ...

Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that’s not very fair to these amazing amphibians. There are currently around 7,600 known species ...

Most people would attach little importance to these small and solitary amphibians. Yet, salamanders, referred to by scientists as ‘indicator species’, play a fundamental role in the good functioning ...

For the first time, researchers revived fully functional mouse brain tissue from cryopreservation. The secret sauce: ...