Amphibians can be fascinating, low-maintenance pets that provide a unique window into the natural world. These remarkable creatures, with their dual lives in water and on land, captivate both children ...

When special-education teacher Thomas Ackermann comes home from work, he heads straight for the basement of his house in Aachen, Germany. Behind the door of his self-described “man cave” lies a ...

In 2023, Evan Koch — a postdoctoral researcher at the National Museum of the Czech Republic — led a team through the Juruá River basin forests of Brazil on an expedition. In their travels, they ...

Scientists found a “slender” creature with a bright orange belly in a mountain lake of Guangdong and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto In a mountain lake of eastern ...

Scientists found a “fire-bellied” creature in a waterhole of the Huanggangshan Mountains and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Jiang, Huang, Fan, Cheng, Gong, Cui, Zhang, Lan, Zou, ...

The mystery of how animals evolve vivid colours to warn predators they are poisonous or taste nasty appears to have been solved, for amphibians at least. But evolution occurs when a mutation spreads ...