** The first known underwater diving club in Britain, " The Amphibians Club ", is formed in Aberdeen by Ivor Howitt ( who modified an old civilian gas mask ) and some friends.

Amphibians and reptiles were affected by the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse ( CRC ), an extinction event that occurred ~ 300 million years ago.

Amphibians and reptiles cope with heat loss by evaporative cooling and behavioral adaptations.

Amphibians such as frogs and salamanders recolonized the lake, and fish ( reintroduced by fishermen ) thrived.

for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles with an introduction by P. E. Vanzolini

for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford ; with an introduction by P. E. Vanzolini

After the dissolution of Strategic Investments, a few of the players took their winnings and split off into two independent groups, the Amphibians who were primarily led by Semyon Dukach and the Reptiles who were led by Mike Aponte, Manlio Lopez and Wes Atamian.

* Discovering Sierra Reptiles and Amphibians ( Discovering Sierra Series ), by Harold Basey, ISBN 0-939666-03-0, Yosemite Association, 1991.

* Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Park, by M. V. Walker, 1946.

In 1998, the zoo opened Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, followed by Red Ape RainForest in 2000, the Komodo Dragon Exhibit, the Winnick Family Children Zoo in 2001, the Entry Plaza, Children's Discovery Center and Sea Lion Cliffs ( now Sea Life Cliffs ) in 2005, Campo Gorilla Reserve in November 2007, Elephants of Asia in the winter of 2010, and the LAIR ( Living Amphibians, Invertebrates, and Reptiles ) in 2012.

* Visuomotor Coordination: Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots by Jorg Peter Ewert, Michael A. Arbib

Published in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is Sue Townsend's sixth full Adrian Mole novel ( as opposed to and the Small Amphibians and the Guardian serial ).

Amphibians and reptiles may avoid flames by burrowing into the ground or using the burrows of other animals.

The common name, " Green and Golden Bell Frog ", was first adopted by Harold Cogger in his 1975 book Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia.

Amphibians were the dominant land vertebrates, of which one branch would eventually evolve into reptiles, the first fully terrestrial vertebrates.

* Amphibians, vertebrate animals of the Class Amphibia ( many of which live on land and breed in water )

Amphibians have a skeletal system that is structurally homologous to other tetrapods, though with a number of variations.

Amphibians, reptiles, and birds use the same orifice for excreting liquid and solid wastes, and for copulation and egg-laying ; this orifice is known as the cloaca.

Amphibians and reptiles have no ovarian medulla ; the central part of the ovary is a hollow, lymph-filled space.

In the original TV series and in Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians, his name is given as Nigel Partridge.

Adrian Mole From Minor to Major ( i. e. from being a child to the years of the John Major government ) is a compilation of the first three books and " Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians ".

A Photographic Guide to Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes is fully illustrated with most of the images taken in or adjacent to the animals ’ natural habitats.

The zoo is currently planning a new zoo entrance and a new elephant management complex for the future, as well as some new additions to the Amphibians and Reptiles building.

The Alpine Newt ( Ichthyosaura alpestris, formerly Triturus alpestris and Mesotriton alpestris ) is a newt of the Salamander order Caudata ( or Urodela ) in the class of Amphibians.

Amphibians usually swallow food whole but may chew it lightly first in order to subdue it.

Amphibians today generally remain semi-aquatic, living the first stage of their lives as fish-like tadpoles.

Much earlier, before the age of reptiles, Amphibians like Prionosuchus and Platyoposaurus were the first animals to adopt this body plan and niche.

The first vertebrate insectivores were Amphibians.

The first two books are repackaged in one volume, and Adrian Mole: The Lost Years includes The True Confessions and The Wilderness Years, as well as a bonus not available separately, " Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians ".

He provided the first comprehensive illustrated account of North American Amphibians & Reptiles in the two editions of his North American Herpetology: or a Description of the Reptiles inhabiting the United States.

A book series known as " Dangerous Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Jellyfish, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, Grasses, Trees, Mosses and Lichens of Terror Incognita " extends at least into " Volume 29c Part Three ", while a list of the harmless ones contains only " Some of the sheep.

Amphibians are members of the class Amphibia, whose living forms include frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians.

Amphibians typically have a larval stage that lives in water but there are many different behavioural adaptations that have developed among species to bypass this necessity.

Amphibians also use their skin for respiration and some small terrestrial salamanders rely entirely on this and have no lungs.

Amphibians evolved adaptations that allowed them to stay out of the water for longer periods.

Amphibians are cold blooded vertebrates.

Amphibians have a urinary bladder and nitrogenous waste products are excreted primarily as urea.

Amphibians often eat the sloughed skin.

Amphibians have a juvenile stage and an adult stage and the circulatory systems of the two are distinct.

Amphibians swallow their prey whole, with some chewing done in the oral cavities of some species, so they possess voluminous stomachs.

Amphibians possess a pancreas, liver and gall bladder.

Amphibians have two kidneys located dorsally, near the roof of the body cavity.

Amphibians have soft bodies and thin skins, lack claws, defensive armour or spines and seem relatively helpless.

Amphibians also retain the fifth connecting vessel, so that the aorta has two parallel arches.

Amphibians include the green toad, American toad, common tree frog, and the Cretan marsh frog.

Amphibians were diverse and common ; some were several meters long as adults.

Amphibians were the dominant tetrapods until the mid-Carboniferous, when climate change greatly reduced their diversity.

Amphibians originally thrived in the marshes, sloughs, side-channels and oxbow cutoffs because of their warmer water, abundance of vegetation and nutrients, lower population of predators, and slower current.

Amphibians have a three-chambered heart.