The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. “Amphibians are the world’s most threatened animals,” said Duke University’s Junjie Yao, a frog researcher who was not involved in the study. “Their unique biology and permeable skin make them very sensitive to environmental changes.” The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, found that the loss of …
Salamanders have long been considered “silent amphibians”, but a newly published paper by Robin Suyesh in Salamandra, the German journal of herpetology, threatens to challenge conventional wisdom by documenting males of a certain Himalayan salamanders vocalising for the first time ever. “What this study suggests is that these salamanders could also have evolved vocalisations as an adaptation due to the …
A team of scientists from Brazil and the United States has discovered a species of amphibians, ringed caeclilian with oral venomous glands. According to News 18, Professor Edmund ‘Butch’ Brodie from Utah State University, while we generally think amphibians like frogs and toads are basically harmless, there are “a number of amphibians that store nasty, poisonous secretions in their skin …
