Although the vast majority of modern reptiles and amphibians are carnivores, many fish are herbivores.
They are the primitive air breathers, such as lungfish, gar and many amphibians that still possess gills.
Warming temperatures could be reducing the amphibians' ability to mount a successful immune response to the fungus.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Warming link to amphibian disease
Electroreception is well known in fish and amphibians, but until now the only mammal example was the platypus.
The hanzaki-loving strains of chytrid appear to differ from those that are proving so virulent to amphibians now.
Or do we move like the amphibians that moved to the land way back in our evolutionary past?
About two decades ago, researchers first noticed something odd was happening to amphibians.
They added that the locations were also favoured by insects, which were an important food source for amphibians and reptiles.
Amphibians can act as an early warning sign of pollution such as acid rain due to their porous, absorbent skin.
One of the world's most commonly used herbicides, atrazine, poses a serious threat to frogs and other amphibians, American scientists claim.
Scientists identified nearly 60 species of amphibians, 20 reptiles and 120 species of birds, the group said in a prepared statement.
Construction of new headquarters for Durham Police can now begin after measures were agreed to protect rare amphibians found on the site.
Others suggest that it is the remains of the regurgitated innards of amphibians such as frogs and toads and of their spawn.
Experts with Conservation International argue that the discovery is particularly significant since amphibians serve as an accurate gauge of an area's ecological health.
The fossils were discovered in areas that were once freshwater floodplains home to fishes, amphibians, turtles, crocodiles, terrestrial lizards, pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds.
To experts tracking a decline in amphibians with growing alarm, it's like a symphony in which some of the players haven't been showing up.
For some species, such as the Lao newt, smuggling can have a devastating effect, but most amphibians face the much greater threat of habitat destruction.
BBC: Should the location of newly discovered species be hidden?
He thinks smuggling is not the most pressing threat to amphibians.
BBC: Should the location of newly discovered species be hidden?
Remember, with respect to birds, or fish, or marine mammals, or many insects, even amphibians and reptiles, for example: they do not acknowledge arbitrary human boundaries.
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"These studies clearly indicate that atrazine is detrimental to amphibians, " said Dr Tyrone Hayes, associate professor of integrative biology at the University of California at Berkeley.
The discovery of 10 amphibians, which are believed to be new to science, was the result of a three-week survey of the area, the group said.
Opening the debate on 20 September 2010, the report's author, Dutch centre-right MEP Esther de Lange, said that 30% of amphibians and 20% of mammals were under threat.
Scientists report that many types of amphibians, especially frogs, are in a steep global decline likely caused by a mix of habitat loss, climate change, pollution and a virulent fungus.
The chytrid fungus, or BD as it is sometimes called, infects the skins of amphibians such as frogs, toads, salamanders and newts and interferes with their ability to absorb water.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Warming link to amphibian disease
Finally, why did the programme not point out that in fact world wide the trade in wild-caught reptiles and amphibians has been steadily declining over the past 3 or 4 years.
Rescue efforts to help amphibians aren't unique to Philadelphia.
WSJ: Why Do the Toads Cross the Road? It's Mating Season in Philadelphia
The roads aren't closed, but signs are posted to alert drivers to the crossings, where volunteers use buckets to ferry the toads across, says Danial Winchester, the volunteer amphibians officer with the group.
WSJ: Why Do the Toads Cross the Road? It's Mating Season in Philadelphia
The Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC), who carried out the study, believe the find could practically double the number of amphibians known in the world if the results are extrapolated at a global scale.
In the past decade many insects, spiders, scorpions, amphibians, reptiles and rodents, as well as large mammals, have been shown to use vibrations for purposes as diverse as territorial defence, mate location and prey detection.
Prof Barnosky and colleagues compared the rates of known species extinctions in mammals, birds and amphibians during the last five centuries with those estimated from the fossil record during the previous Big Five die-outs of the geological past.
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