A study suggests that neuromuscular adaptations in mammals and birds may have allowed them to become more nimble than reptiles and amphibians. Since the 1900s, neuroscientists have known that the ...

Explore how frogs, axolotls, and other amphibians use cutaneous respiration to absorb oxygen directly through their skin.

There exist limbless reptiles, amphibians, fish and arthropods, but why are there no limbless mammals? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn ...

A recent study uses data from the IUCN Red List of endangered species to map where threats to terrestrial mammals, birds, and amphibians occur at a global scale. The six major threats to biodiversity ...

“The results support earlier findings, but the very large sample size in this study represents a substantial advance,” Len Gillman of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand who was not ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The basis for differences in whole-body lactic acid concentrations after activity in three species of anurans was investigated. Rana pipiens ...

Artificial cover objects (ACOs) are known to attract small terrestrial vertebrates, but the actual parameters that attract species to ACOs can vary across geographic regions and climates. For this ...