The National Science Foundation, or NSF, awarded a $12.5 million grant to support a research partnership focused on amphibian resilience to infectious diseases. The researchers are a part of the ...

Feb. 27 (UPI) --Until now, scientists knew of only four biofluorescent amphibians, one salamander and three frog species. According to a new study, published this week in the journal Scientific ...

The ability to activate different sets of genes has likely helped the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis spread widely in amphibians, resulting in global population declines. While the ...

An international study led by The Australian National University has found that a fungal disease has caused dramatic population declines worldwide in at least 501 amphibian species, including 90 ...

Many animals — from marine species like fish to corals and land creatures like penguins and parrots — have a hidden skill: gleaming blue, green or red under certain kinds of light (SN: 11/17/17). But ...

Scott Glaberman, Assistant Professor/Associate Chair for Research, Environmental Science and Policy; Faculty Fellow, Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center (PEREC), received $30,000 from ...

Human-made changes to the environment are linked to changes in the microbiome on cricket frogs' skin and antimicrobial peptide secretions through the skin, possibly weakening the animals' immune ...

Salamanders are typically elusive animals and adept at hiding, but National Zoo visitors will have a chance to see a variety of different amphibian species up close. The Reptile Discovery Center’s ...

SUAMICO (WLUK) -- With nearly 20 different species of amphibians across the state, many recognize the more popular ones like frogs and toads. On the grounds of Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve in Suamico ...

Amphibians are land animals, but can only reproduce in water. They prefer to live in and around small bodies of water. But this habitat is becoming increasingly rare—in Germany alone, more than half ...

CLEVELAND--Man-made changes to the environment may be damaging the immune systems of a species of frog whose populations have drastically declined since the 1970s, according to a new study by ...