amphibian

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Edwardian author Kenneth Grahame's story of boating, caravanning and picnicking and the hi-jinks of a cross-dressing amphibian is also an ode to the English landscape.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

To reconstruct the fungus's historical distribution, international collaborators examined 2,280 amphibian specimens collected between 1815 and 2014 and stored in zoological museums worldwide.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

Those meals came from 18 humans, one amphibian, six birds, one canid, and one mouse.

From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2026

Introduced species are wreaking havoc due to similar lack of evolved defenses in the American beech, many amphibian species and North American bats of different kinds.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2025

It is, in fact, an amphibian, which can live in or out of water.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl