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Frogs that freeze themselves solid in the winter and thaw in the spring inspired methods to extend the storage time for ...

From a butterfly shaped by 40,000 years of isolation to creatures 1,400 feet below the sea, scientists uncovered thousands of ...

Blue-spotted salamanders, found in labs to be intolerant of freezing, are seen walking on ice in Ontario, Canada, explained ...

Amphibians were the first vertebrates to crawl up from the water onto land. Even today, amphibians lay their soft-shell eggs ...

Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

In the aftermath of historically severe wildfires in 2020, a study of Cascade Range watersheds found that stream vertebrates are doing surprising well, highlighted by flourishing fish populations.

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...

Hong Kong-based Seaplane Asia, through its aircraft asset management joint venture Aero Assets Asia, signed a purchase agreement for twelve Cessna (single turboprop) Grand Caravan EX Amphibians at ...

The history of the sugar beet has far more twists and turns than you might expect, from Napoleonic orders to anti-slavery movements. One of the newer uses for the sugar beet lies in using a mixture of ...