Amphibians and reptiles face an unprecedented global extinction crisis, with a significant proportion of species threatened ...

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

A TERRIFYING new dinosaur with a swordlike crest has been compared to a beast from “hell”. The prehistoric predator was found in a remote part of the Sahara after 95 million years in a ...

The World Nature Photography Awards (WNPAs) have announced their winners from a pool of entries received from all corners of the globe.

The world’s largest frog species is very aptly named – the goliath frog, also known as the giant slippery frog and goliath bullfrog. Native to Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, it can grow up to 32cm in ...

A new species of amphibian that lived 150 million years ago has been discovered in Portugal. The tiny animal was one of the earliest species belonging to a mysterious group of amphibians that lived ...

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The chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), or Bd for short, is considered one of the causes of the worldwide decline in amphibian populations. In recent years, researchers have identified ...

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...

Chytrid fungus is a deadly pathogen plaguing amphibians in an ongoing global pandemic, with the potential to kill off entire populations. But in one threatened Australian frog species, the infection ...

A Surinam toad camouflages itself by dead leaves (credit: Getty Images) A South American frog whose young erupt from the mother’s back. Called (confusingly) the Surinam toad, it is the most ...

Though once in sharp decline across much of their range, today Common Ravens are a regular sight in a wide variety of habitats, from the peaks of the Rockies to the roofs of Walmarts. They’re ...