If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Frogs and turtles can both survive on water and land, but don’t confuse them as the same species. As part of the Amazing Amphibians exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, kids can peer at all ...

Scientists on Thursday described the fossilized skull of a creature called Kermitops gratus that lived in Texas about 270 million years ago. The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas.

1 Stage and Screen Actor Ken Page Dies at Age 70 Back by popular demand, Frogs: A Chorus of Colors is an engaging, dynamic exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History that features more than ...

Several new species of amphibians and a reptile that lived in what's now Brazil from 278 million years ago have just been discovered and described by a team of scientists from around the world, ...

Scientists found the ancient amphibian fossil in the collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...