Alternatives to cow’s milk keep popping up. There’s oat milk, there’s goat’s milk, and now there’s amphibian milk (though you won’t find it on grocery store shelves). A team of Brazilian biologists ...

Caecilians are legless amphibians. Some of them are immune to cobra venom and in a certain sense, some of them eat their mothers from the inside-out and some eat them from the outside-in. Did you miss ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered 'unprecedented' snake venom resistance in an unexpected species -- the legless amphibian known as caecilians. An international team of researchers ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI - Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India - unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, ...

Caecilians are the first amphibians known to pass on their microbiomes to their offspring. By Sofia Quaglia When born, baby caecilians — legless amphibians that look like a mash-up of a snake and a ...

A worm-like creature secretes a nutritious milk from its rear end to feed its hatchlings, in the first known example of an amphibian feeding its young in this way. The ringed caecilian (Siphonops ...

A new family of legless amphibians was discovered living 16 inches deep in the soils of northeast India. Named chikilidae, the family belongs to the rarest and most primitive of the amphibians—the ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered “unprecedented” snake venom resistance in an unexpected species – the legless amphibian known as caecilians. The University of Queensland’s Associate ...