Known to science as Iguana delicatissima (as in Latin for “most delicate”, not delicatessen, you hungry hungry humans), ...

Did you know that one-fifth of the world’s reptiles are at risk of extinction? And amphibians are declining by about 4% every year, according to the United States Geological Survey. Experts say the No ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Kihansi spray toad is a tiny, vibrant amphibian that ...

One of the world’s most endangered amphibians – the primordial and fish-like axolotl – has successfully adapted to a new environment after being released into artificial wetlands in Mexico, scientists ...

Curitiba, Brazil used to be forests, wetlands, fields and streams before it was developed over the last half-century. Gilberto Jacob via Unsplash As new species are discovered around the world, others ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

“Extintos: The Beauty of Endangered Amphibians From Brazil” is on display through Oct. 18 in the Reese Bullen Gallery on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus. As part of a joint initiative of art and science ...

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 Darwin’s frogs, following the zoo’s urgent mission to rescue the critically endangered species from the brink of extinction. An adult and a young Darwin’s ...

The golden toad was declared extinct in 2004, the victim of climate change, scientists said in 2022. But Trevor Ritland ...

Roughly 230 million years ago, a group of alligator-sized amphibians convened on a floodplain in what is now west-central Wyoming. For some mysterious reason, the creatures all died around the same ...

A skull of the Triassic amphibian Buettnererpeton bakeri gets uncovered for the first time in 230 million years. Researchers found it in a cache of skeletons that were well-preserved and appear to be ...