A recent visit to Salleyland, South Carolina, was as pleasant as could be expected on a muggy midsummer day while trudging through swamp mud and wiping spiderwebs from our faces. Even when I ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Nine-year-old Ruby Banta thought it was a pretty simple choice, even for adults. “This was the salamander’s habitat first,” she said after an afternoon soccer game. “It’s not a college ...

Lungs are essential to many vertebrates including humans. However, four living amphibian clades have independently eliminated pulmonary respiration and lack lungs, breathing primarily through their ...