When the year began, we penciled into our publication calendar the idea to finish 2025 by naming a Portlander of the Year. By ...

Rick Ganley, Host of NHPR's Morning Edition: A stand-out moment for me in 2025 was sharing a stage with Peter Wolf, musician ...

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...

They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...

Some creatures begin their life in water. But as they get older, they change so they can live on land. These creatures are called amphibians. Frogs are amphibians. In the spring, female frogs lay ...

This is Blob. Blob can't do much, like lift his own head. He doesn't even have a head. If Blob had been born with a spine, or backbone, he would have been a vertebrate. If we give Blob some legs and a ...

Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, ...