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A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

Frogs are commonly found in wet tropical forests today. More than a third of nearly 7,000 species of frog, in fact, live in wet forests. Fossil record, however, has little direct evidence to show a ...

A tiny amphibian that lived 99 million years ago had a secret weapon: A tongue that shot out of its mouth like a bullet to snatch its prey. It’s the earliest known example of this “ballistic tongue” ...

The discoveries of two new species serve both to underscore the variety of fossils found at the Arkansas site, including dinosaurs, mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles, and to reinforce the overall ...

The cataclysm that ended the Age of Dinosaurs not only drove land animals to migrate into the water, but also pushed aquatic creatures to colonize the land, a new study reveals. The shifts between ...