Frogs and turtles can both survive on water and land, but don’t confuse them as the same species. As part of the Amazing Amphibians exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, kids can peer at all ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit - or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians that has been named after the celebrity frog.

The Calvert Marine Museum’s Estuarine Biology Department has published findings from a 2025 study that used nighttime ...

Several new species of amphibians and a reptile that lived in what's now Brazil from 278 million years ago have just been discovered and described by a team of scientists from around the world, ...

Scientists found the ancient amphibian fossil in the collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Arjan Mann (right), a Smithsonian postdoctoral paleontologist and former Peter Buck Fellow, and Calvin So (left), a doctoral student at George Washington University, holding the fossil skull of ...

Scientists on Thursday described the fossilized skull of a creature called Kermitops gratus that lived in Texas about 270 million years ago. The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas.

Two hundred and seventy-eight million years ago, the world was a different place. Not only were the landmasses merged into the supercontinent of Pangaea, but the land was home to ancient animals ...