A recent visit to Salleyland, South Carolina, was as pleasant as could be expected on a muggy midsummer day while trudging through swamp mud and wiping spiderwebs from our faces. Even when I ...

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HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Nine-year-old Ruby Banta thought it was a pretty simple choice, even for adults. “This was the salamander’s habitat first,” she said after an afternoon soccer game. “It’s not a college ...

D.C. doesn’t have statehood or a vote in the Senate. It doesn’t have clusters of skyscrapers or rivers that are (officially) swimmable. But soon, it might have an official amphibian, thanks to a ...

Lungs are essential to many vertebrates including humans. However, four living amphibian clades have independently eliminated pulmonary respiration and lack lungs, breathing primarily through their ...

Ashley Maynard works at ETH Zurich and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond her academic appointment. Different cell types have different functions. They are able to specialize in certain ...