Field biologists discovered an unknown amphibian species in China's Damingshan National Nature Reserve. This new frog, ...

Anurans, salamanders and caecilians represent the three major orders of Amphibia, collectively encompassing over 8,000 described species worldwide. Phylogenetic analysis employs molecular, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit - or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians that has been named after the celebrity frog.

Australian tree frogs today make up over one third of all known frog species on the continent. Among this group, iconic species such as the green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) and the green and golden ...

LOS ANGELES - Researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have stumbled upon the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old amphibian forebear. As per the discovery published ...

Scientists on Thursday described the fossilized skull of a creature called Kermitops gratus that lived in Texas about 270 million years ago. The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas.

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(CNN) — Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a ...