Claudia Steffensen was ready to take a beautiful hike in the Valtellina Orobie Mountains in 2024. She never expected to discover something paradigm-shifting. While trekking through the Ambria Valley, ...

Scientists in Australia just identified a new species of primitive amphibian with "gnarly teeth" that lived in the rivers of ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, academics have found.

Ancient amphibians survived Earth's biggest extinction by feeding on freshwater prey. Their adaptability helped them thrive.

Witton ( The end-Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was the largest, wiping out up to 90% of species. Researchers have focused on the survivors and their fate in the following Triassic ...

This extinction event occurred 252 million years ago and was most likely triggered by a cascade of volcanic eruptions. ​​ Though 90% of life perished, some species survived despite the environmental ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath ... their findings suggest the amphibians’ success lay in their generalist feeding ecology, enabling them to feed on a wide variety of prey despite ...

All over Mexico, the peculiar, dragon-like amphibian can be spotted in murals ... The axolotl appeared in ancient Mesoamerican documents. In the Nahua myth of the Fifth Sun, pre-Hispanic god ...