Tyler Irvin, president of the UTA Herpetology Club, shows a student a jar of preserved rattlesnakes Feb. 6 during “A Night at the Museum” at the Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center. Irvin ...

The Night at the Museum event will feature a complete tour of the internationally recognized library and research facilities at 6 p.m. Friday.

Scientists have uncovered the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old ancient amphibian ancestor in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. The team of researchers ...

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will celebrate crocodiles during their annual Reptile and Amphibian Day on Saturday. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., both floors of the museum will feature dozens ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of extinct amphibian that used its powerful sticky tongue to catch bugs. The species, Chemnitzion richteri, used an ambush strategy to feed, ...

The fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has played a major role in the worldwide decline of frogs and toads. Its origins were investigated in a study conducted by scientists from the State ...

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 ...