Synonyms for amphibians
am·phib·ians

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1. List of paraphrases for "amphibians":

   amphibian, amphibia, reptiles, vascular

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1. Luis Merlo:

   Some 60-70 percent of (amphibians) are in critical danger or almost extinct.

2. Peter Marra:

   Birds are in crisis, the take-home message is that our findings add to mounting evidence with other recent studies showing massive declines in insects, amphibians and other taxa, signaling a widespread ecological crisis.

3. Louise Rollins-Smith:

   Amphibians, especially certain groups of frogs, produce and store large amounts of antimicrobial peptides in specialized granular glands in the skin, when the skin is injured or the frog is alarmed, they release large amounts of the peptides to protect the skin.

4. Steve Brusatte:

   As Pangea split there were huge volcanic eruptions, about 200 million years ago, and these plunged the world into chaos: environmental destruction and rapid climate swings, the big amphibians couldn't cope well and many species went extinct, but dinosaurs and mammals made it through.

5. Steve Brusatte:

   Part of the fabric of that world were these huge amphibians [metoposaurids] — they lived all over the place, especially in the low latitudes.