Frogs and newts, e.g

Usage examples of amphibians.

There was food at Aquarius Station, about thirty kilometers to the north of the mountain range, and the indigenous amphibians that inhabited the swamps were edible when they could be caught and killed.

Since animal taxa such as mammals, reptiles or amphibians contain members with very different brain sizes, we cannot give a reliable estimate of the number of neurons in the brain of a typical representative of each taxon.

All that showed in infra were tiny, fleeting specks that were probably small amphibians going about their business.

The leslies and some of the other amphibians had footprints as long as a human print and splayed wider at the front, but this one had a distinct heel, much like the mark left by a human foot.

He heard the plopping of the bodies of the native amphibians in the water and on the mud when they jumped, the splashing when they scampered from a mud bar or islet into the water.

The skinks were bigger than the native amphibians, and their sounds would be different.

The mating and territorial croaks of swamp amphibians sent shivers up many spines and helped keep everyone alert.

The plop sounded just like one of the small amphibians jumping into the water.

The soldiers fought doggedly, attacking the amphibians in small bands, while the Rillyti battled each for himself.

The awkward amphibians were unstoppable in head-on combat, when their powerful slashes could batter down any guard, split a man half in two.

At one point, they stopped at the edge of a small body of water and watched as several fat and rubbery amphibians wallowed in the shallows, plunging their broad heads beneath the surface to pull up water plants growing on the bottom.

The burrows of mammals and insects and amphibians turned into tiny coffins.

The frog was a relic of much more ancient times, when amphibians had dominated the world.

In another few million years these mole folk would swarm like tiny lizards, competing with the reptiles and amphibians who had always inhabited the microecology.

As far as anyone knew, only reptiles, amphibians and mammals were mysteriously altered.