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On warm, rainy spring nights, Maine's amphibians are on the move to make their moves, sometimes with human help.
These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep by day stuck to leaf-bottoms with their eyes closed and body markings covered. When disturbed, they flash their bulging red eyes and reveal their huge ...
Amphibians, like frogs and toads, occur primarily in the tropical zone and the warmer, lower temperate forest belts, although some live in hot springs at incredibly high altitudes. Hard to spot ...
Cavity trees, dead standing trees, and downed dead trees create habitat for many species of mammals, birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles, which positively impacts the rest of the ecosystem.
Within a typical forest in the eastern United States, salamanders are everywhere. On an acre of forest, thousands of salamanders may be foraging among the leaf litter, under logs, and in creeks ...
Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 are found in the country, mainly in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes.
The Shawnee National Forest has closed a road known as Snake Road to allow for snakes and other reptiles and amphibians to ...