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Presently, Amphibian Species of the World classifies the following 31 species in Xenophrys: [1] Xenophrys aceras (Boulenger, 1903) — Perak horned toad; Xenophrys ancrae (Mahony, Teeling & Biju, 2013) — Namdapha horned toadfrog; Xenophrys apatani Saikia et al., 2024 [4] Xenophrys auralensis (Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002) — Aural horned toad
On January 21, 2008, Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) identified nature's most "weird, wonderful and endangered species", stating that "the EDGE amphibians are amongst the most remarkable and unusual species on the planet and yet an alarming 85% of the top 100 are receiving little or no conservation attention."
The list below largely follows Darrel Frost's Amphibian Species of the World (ASW), Version 5.5 (31 January 2011). Another classification, which largely follows Frost, but deviates from it in part is the one of AmphibiaWeb , which is run by the California Academy of Sciences and several of universities.
A male humpback whale made one of the longest and most unusual migrations on record for the species, an anomaly scientists say might be linked to climate change.
The male humpback whale that traveled the longest documented distance to date is observed in Zanzibar Channel, off the village of Fumba on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, on August 22, 2022.
Amphibian Species of the World 6.2: An Online Reference (ASW) is a herpetology database. It lists the names of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians , which scientists first described each species and what year, and the animal's known range.
Researchers evaluated the health of more than 8,000 amphibian species around the world and determined that nearly 41% — 2,871 in total — are globally threatened.
Amphisbaenia / æ m f ɪ s ˈ b iː n i ə / (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of typically legless lizards, [1] comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes.