Scientists have uncovered the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old ancient amphibian ancestor in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. In a paper published ...

Life on our planet began in the water. Eventually, one branch of the fish family tree developed legs and came up on land.

Dead men tell no tales, but dead frogs can speak volumes. Scientists have shown that frogs and salamanders preserved in museums tell the history of a deadly fungus and its spread across Mexico and ...

Amphibia is picking up where the acclaimed animated series Gravity Falls left off in more ways than one. On the one hand (or paw, or flipper), Amphibia showrunner / creator Matt Braly worked in the ...

The American Naturalist, Vol. 25, No. 295 (Jul., 1891), pp. 644-646 (3 pages) ...

Baby crocodile-like early tetrapods called embolomeres. New fossil evidence suggests that these embolomeres did not undergo a metamorphosis the way that modern amphibians do when growing up, which ...