Similarities to the womb and placenta of female mammals indicate a response to common evolutionary challenges in pregnancy.

Once they near emergence, the female's thin skin bulges and pulsates with the struggles of the impatient froglets. The day ...

Africa's Senegal coucal, a ground-dwelling bird, expertly hunts snakes, its primary prey. While snakes rely on venom or ...

The animal in question is the Surinam toad, scientifically known as Pipa pipa. Though it might sound unbelievable, this ...

Three new toad species discovered in a mountain range in Tanzania have a super rare reproduction method and give birth to ...

Live birth, or skipping the egg-laying and larva stage, is extremely rare in amphibians. Among more than 4,000 species of ...

Scientists have discovered three rare frog species in Tanzania that give birth to live young - skipping the tadpole stage entirely.

Three newly-identified toad species in Tanzania give birth to live young, skipping the frogspawn and tadpole stages — an ...

In seahorses, it is the males who carry offspring to term. The females lay their eggs into a special brood pouch on the ...

Stingrays give birth to live babies, but they aren't mammals. Learn all about these fascinating fish that live in oceans and ...

Learn how three new toad species from Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains evolved to skip the tadpole stage — revealing one of nature’s rarest reproductive strategies.

Nectophrynoides comprise only about one percent of all frogs and toads, but that number is officially increasing. In a study published in the journal Vertebrate Zoology, biologists describe an ...