The admirable little red-bellied toad is the size of a thumb, but it has achieved giant feats: In 2014, it prevented the ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

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Celtic Rewilding wants to bring back the agile frog (Rana dalmatina), the moor frog (R. arvalis), and the European tree frog ...

A rare toad changed the fate of a river by becoming the first amphibian to halt a hydroelectric dam. It's now in trouble.

The zoo also serves as a hub for classroom visits, birthday parties, homeschool groups and the Sioux Falls Herpetological ...

Scientists map how climate-driven extreme heat and human land use together push almost 8,000 vertebrate species toward extinction.

Around 16,000 new species are described each year, but most animals and plants are listed as threatened as soon as they are ...

Glow up or grow up? Times columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak look back and assess whether 2025 was good for America ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...