Many animal lovers have grown up watching amphibians since they were children. With frogs and newts living in ponds, rivers, ...

Disease isn’t the biggest killer of amphibians — that would be habitat loss — but it can be the quickest. And the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in particular has been a huge worry ...

Jérica and Sot de Ferrer (Castellón), including critically endangered iguanas endemic to Fiji. Nearly half of the reptiles ...

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution and invasive species are all involved in the global crisis of amphibian declines and extinctions, researchers suggest in a new analysis, but increasingly ...

If you walk through a forest at night, you see only darkness and shadows, and perhaps the smudgy outline of trees against the sky. But if you were a salamander snuggled in the leaf litter, under the ...

Have you ever strolled past an animal’s enclosure at the Zoo, thinking it was empty? Chances are, you were fooled by a creature whose camouflage allows it to seamlessly blend into its environment.

What a Caecilian Actually Is Caecilians are the third order of amphibians, sitting alongside frogs and salamanders in the ...

Have you ever strolled past an animal’s enclosure at the Zoo, thinking it was empty? Chances are, you were fooled by a creature whose camouflage allows it to seamlessly blend into its environment.

Thousands of animals, from mountain lions to newts, are killed each year due to vehicle collisions. Traffic is even partially to blame for population declines in some species. Amphibians are ...

Evidence that the world’s amphibians are in peril continues to mount. In March, a study published in the journal Science found that 501 species of frogs and salamanders had been driven toward ...

Humans keep all sorts of animals as pets and new species are constantly being brought into the trade – some reared in captivity, but many sourced from the wild. As a result, the global pet trade often ...