The zoo’s Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation worked with other conservation organizations to release the threatened species. The Apalachicola National Forest is now home to the striped newts, as ...

A wormlike, invasive amphibian species was discovered in South Florida, scientists reported this week. A team of researchers with the Florida Museum of Natural History captured one of the legless ...

The Florida herpetofauna in a changing environment / Walter E. Meshaka Jr. and Ray E. Ashton Jr. -- Human disturbance and Florida anurans / Pablo R. Delis and Henry R. Mushinsky -- Herpetofauna of ...

Traffic, partiers, sunshine. And now caecilians? You can find them all in South Florida. We know about the first three in the list, so let’s try to explain the fourth. Weird, noodle-shaped amphibians ...

Scientists recently identified a non-native species that was found in a South Florida canal in 2019. The creature, which some believe is an abandoned pet, looks like a worm, but is actually a "legless ...

When one thinks of the word "amphibian," what likely comes to mind for most people is a frog or similar creature. But officials with Florida Fish and Wildlife announced in late July 2021 that they had ...

Another day, another weird creature to haunt our dreams. This time, in Florida. Texas, the Sunshine State sees your hammerhead flatworms and raises you limbless amphibians that can grow up to five ...

Researchers say yet another non-native species may have begun making its home in Florida, but unlike some other creatures brought in from elsewhere, it’s possible the slimy snake-like caecilians may ...

1. Introduction -- Class Amphibia. 2. Species accounts: Order Caudata (salamanders) ; 3. Species accounts: Order Anura (frogs) -- Class Reptilia. 4. Species accounts ...

Caecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife officers captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal, the first example of an introduced caecilian in the U.S.