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Arjan Mann (right), a Smithsonian postdoctoral paleontologist and former Peter Buck Fellow, and Calvin So (left), a doctoral student at George Washington University, holding the fossil skull of ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian identified a fossilized skull from a 270 million-year-old amphibian, which they've named Kermitops gratus Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of a prehistoric species of amphibian that could be the precursor to modern species − and they bestowed upon it the great honor of being named after a green froggy ...

Nabia civiscientrix© Fandom Animals Wiki CC-BY-SA 3.0 Nabia civiscientrix was named for the Lusitanian river goddess Nabia and for the citizen scientists who helped bring the discovery to light.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — ...

The skull possesses a mishmash of traits that were different from features seen in the skulls of older tetrapods, the ancient ancestors of amphibians and other living four-legged vertebrates. For ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a ...