For decades, a silent killer has slaughtered frogs and salamanders around the world by eating their skins alive. Now, a global team of 41 scientists has announced that the pathogen—which humans ...

They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...

This is Blob. Blob can't do much, like lift his own head. He doesn't even have a head. If Blob had been born with a spine, or backbone, he would have been a vertebrate. If we give Blob some legs and a ...

Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, ...