Brian Gratwicke, NZCBI - National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute In recent decades, habitat loss, environmental change, and a deadly chytrid fungus has decimated amphibian species around ...

There were already predecessors of modern mammals, and predatory crocodile relatives encountered giant amphibians. Research into the environment and animal communities is extremely exciting for us ...

But alarmed by the fatalities they used to see on the road, locals set up the rescue group 22 years ago and with backing from the council the road is now closed during the amphibians' migration ...

If the woman is pregnant, it would cause the amphibian to produce eggs. That, of course, and the devastating disease it spread because of us humans. British zoologist Lancelot Hogben was studying ...