Amphibians called caecilians add cloacal secretions of a nutritious material similar to milk to their numerous quirks, according to a new study. By Sofia Quaglia Sofia Quaglia previously wrote about ...

Parental care for offspring occurs in many animals and is an essential part of the reproduction, propagation and development of an organism. An international research team from Brazil, the U.S. and ...

This Creature Looks Like a Snake But Scientists Say It's Something Most People Never Knew Existed ...

Caecilian amphibians feed their young by producing a special skin layer, transferring microbes to promote a healthy microbiome. The study highlights this unique parenting behavior and its contribution ...

You know what there doesn’t need to be more of? Animals that eat the flesh of their own kind. King snakes, squids, mantids, lions — the list goes on. Cannibalism is positively rampant in the wild, but ...

There are nearly 200 species of caecilians, but most people will never encounter one. That’s because they tend to live underground, burrowing through loose soil and ground litter with their long, ...

A new species of a caecilian found in a plantation near Cotigao wildlife sanctuary in Canacona has been named after the range forest officer (RFO) of Bondla Paresh Porob. Giri further added, "This ...

A new unstriped Ichthyophis was found in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on Thursday. The new species is named ...

A caecilian fossil from the Triassic period, discovered in Arizona, helps Virginia Tech researchers understand the evolution of the species. It’s 2019 and just like any other day for PhD student Ben ...