New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

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 ...

The rise of the dinosaurs began in the Triassic, there were already predecessors of modern mammals, and predatory crocodile relatives encountered giant amphibians. Research into the environment ...

However, Mehmood noted that the rapid success of amphibians in the Early Triassic was short-lived. "They coped with the hot conditions probably by having a low food requirement, being able to eat most ...

But alarmed by the fatalities they used to see on the road, locals set up the rescue group 22 years ago and with backing from the council the road is now closed during the amphibians' migration ...

If the woman is pregnant, it would cause the amphibian to produce eggs. That, of course, and the devastating disease it spread because of us humans. British zoologist Lancelot Hogben was studying ...

The study suggests the amphibians' success lay in their generalist feeding ecology, which enabled them to feed on a wide variety of prey despite the array of environmental changes happening all around ...

Broader examination of Triassic ecosystems also indicates that ... has been the survival and flourishing of a major group of amphibians called the temnospondyls," explained lead author Aamir ...