A study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology shows that the Upper Paraguay River Basin, which includes the Pantanal ...

A grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to help save 25 frog species through conservation, rewilding, and disease prevention ...

The situation is even worse for amphibians. More than 41 percent of the world's amphibians are at risk of dying out. These species are slipping away faster than we can study them. The Center outdid ...

Scientists have observed these disturbing trends in the United States too, where approximately 20 percent of amphibian species and 10 percent of reptile species are at risk of dying out. While habitat ...

Amphibians are one of the earth's most imperiled vertebrate groups, with approximately one-third of all species facing extinction (Stuart et al. 2004). Causes of amphibian population declines and ...

The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen into a pool of tree resin, which preserved the tiny amphibian as it hardened into amber. George Poinar, Jr., a biologist at Oregon State ...

Given global losses in amphibian populations and species, an additional and no less important priority is to identify the consequences of such pathology for amphibian population persistence. Beginning ...

The spotted salamander is Ohio's state amphibian. This one was discovered in a vernal pond at Indian Creek MetroPark in Reily Township. Salamanders are important indicator species. They are very ...