Caecilians are legless amphibians. Some of them are immune to cobra venom and in a certain sense, some of them eat their mothers from the inside-out and some eat them from the outside-in. Did you miss ...

Learn how to identify common garden snakes and quickly tell which species are harmless and which require caution.

In a major taxonomic revision of bush frogs, the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has recorded 13 new-to-science species of amphibians from the northeastern part of the country. These ...

Dehradun: A comprehensive five-year study (2019–2024) by scientists at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has led to a "major taxonomic breakthrough" with the discovery of 13 new amphibian species ...

The see-through amphibians have an amazing strategy for hiding while asleep—one that could advance our understanding of blood clotting. The organs and developing eggs of a female glass frog, ...

Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, ...