Named "Ninumbeehan dookoodukah" by Eastern Shoshone students and elders, the creature burrowed in riverbeds to stay moist ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

A Kermit the Frog-inspired fossil that lived 270 million years ago has finally been identified 40 years after it was unearthed in Texas. Researchers at the Smithsonian Museum and George Washington ...

This weather would have been challenging for amphibians that need to keep their skin moist, but one group of salamander-like creatures found a solution, as evidenced by their bizarre fossils.

Ms. Teran’s work on the dictionary continues, and now Eastern Shoshone words she helped document are being used for the name of a new prehistoric amphibian species. That animal once burrowed for ...

Prehistoric time line ... The productive Paleozoic era gave rise to hard-shelled organisms, vertebrates, amphibians, and reptiles. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth in the mighty Mesozoic.

Kermitops is notable for more than just its namesake puppet persona. The early fossil record of amphibians and their ancestors is largely fragmentary, which makes it difficult to understand how ...

The indentations turned out to be the footprints of reptiles and amphibians from the Permian ... clue to what researchers suggest was an entire prehistoric ecosystem. Steffensen’s discovery ...

Now, researchers say the swamp likely acted as a sex death trap for the ill-fated prehistoric amphibians. In a study published Wednesday in Papers in Paleontology, a team of Irish researchers ...