Salamanders are an important group of living amphibians and model organisms for
understanding locomotion, development, regeneration, feeding, and toxicity in tetrapods …

This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become
fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain …

Inaccurate taxonomic assessment of threatened populations can hinder conservation
prioritization and management, with human‐mediated population movements obscuring …

We present an update of our time-calibrated supertree of extant and extinct lissamphibians
(Marjanović D, Laurin M. 2007. Fossils, molecules, divergence times, and the origin of …

The disjunct geographical range of many lineages of caudates points to a complex
evolutionary and biogeographic history that cannot be disentangled by only considering the …

The fully aquatic Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) is a member of the
Cryptobranchidae, and is currently distributed in western Japan, with other members of this …

Ecological preferences and life history strategies have enormous impacts on the evolution
and phenotypic diversity of salamanders, but the yet established reliable ecological …

A new fossil salamander, Nuominerpeton aquilonaris (gen. et sp. nov.), is named and
described based on specimens from the Lower Cretaceous Guanghua Formation of Inner …

We describe an Oligocene newt specimen from western Germany that has gone practically
unnoticed in the literature despite having been housed in the Museum für Naturkunde …

Abstract The Late Miocene fossil locality Pécs-Danitzpuszta (Mecsek Mts., Hungary) has
yielded cranial and postcranial bones of giant salamanders. Based on taxonomical studies …