These amphibians may look like mutant worms, but they are actually a little-known species called a caecilian, amphibious creatures which dwell underground, making them difficult to study. Now ...

Some groups of amphibians produce fluorescent mucus; some glow all over. Salamanders tend to glow brightly on their bellies, but not on their backs, which might help them hide from predators above.

Amphibians called caecilians add cloacal secretions of a nutritious material similar to milk to their numerous quirks, according to a new study. ... and cloaca milk,” Dr. Blackburn said.

Caecilians, worm-like amphibians that live underground, produce a milk-like substance for their hatchlings, ... or cloaca, said Pedro Mailho-Fontana at Brazil's Butantan Institute.

This Worm-Like Amphibian Eats Its Mother’s Skin to Get Microbes Caecilians are the only known amphibians to pass microbes from one generation to the next, according to a new study ...

In the case of Siphonops annulatus, babies of the species spent a lot of time around the cloaca of their mothers, which seemed to ooze a sticky substance.“The puppies are excited and are ...

Yet she excretes a kind of milk from her cloaca, which her babies love, though they also feast on her skin. Thursday, June 05, 2025 11:31 am (Paris) ... An amphibian that feeds its young with milk ...

This image could be more accurately described as a photograph of a frog's cloaca. In May 2021, an image supposedly showing a frog's "buttcheeks" caused a stir on social media as internet users ...

This cloaca is more than 100 million years old, and it did a lot of work for this extinct species. By Katherine J. Wu The world’s oldest known all-purpose orifice sits in a fossil display case ...

In the footage, Hughes repeatedly touches the snake he encountered, prompting several escape/fart responses. According to Reptiles and Amphibians of Arizona, the Chihuahuan hook-nosed snake is ...

Zoologically speaking, the cloaca is the undifferentiated posterior orifice in birds, reptiles, and amphibians. It serves urinary, digestive, and reproductive functions carried out by specialized ...