Caecilians are an illusive type of snakelike amphibian that live in aquatic and subterranean environments. In some species, mothers produce a special type of nutrient-rich skin that juveniles consume, ...

Caecilians are the first amphibians known to pass on their microbiomes to their offspring. By Sofia Quaglia When born, baby caecilians — legless amphibians that look like a mash-up of a snake and a ...

He had told me the chicken evolved millions of years after the egg. Amphibians were the first vertebrates to crawl up from ...

Even before they walked on land, early amphibians dined differently from their fishy ancestors and may have chomped on prey at or near the water's edge, say US researchers. Primordial amphibians such ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primitive fish already may have possessed the genetic wiring needed to grow hands and feet well before the appearance of the first animals with limbs roughly 365 million years ...