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  • Ribbit's initial service, called Amphibian, is expected to be available in the first quarter.

    Why Can't Computers 2008

  • The 74-year-old conservationist visited Adelaide Zoo yesterday to discuss the potential mass extinction of frogs and how an international breeding program, dubbed the Amphibian Ark, might be the only hope for hundreds of species.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • The 74-year-old conservationist visited Adelaide Zoo yesterday to discuss the potential mass extinction of frogs and how an international breeding program, dubbed the Amphibian Ark, might be the only hope for hundreds of species.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • Fair, "which prologue is curiously entitled" Amphibian "-- implying that we are about to have a reference to creatures capable of living in two distinctive elements, yet absolutely belonging neither to the one nor to the other.

    Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • A fanciful prologue, "Amphibian," strikes its key-note.

    A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

  • "Amphibian Evolution" 1986, based on a textbook diagram, features branches, roots and Botero-fat frogs and crocodiles above and below a waterline in a bold, free-form composition of controlled chaos that feels very art-world contemporary.

    An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias Sidney Lawrence 2011

  • All photos and credits courtesy of the Lost Frogs/Amphibian Campaign.

    PHOTOS: Lost Frogs Signal 'The Sixth Great Extinction' The Huffington Post 2011

  • He is part owner of a seaplane, an eight-passenger Cessna 208 Caravan Amphibian aircraft that has been refurbished and painted bright red, the color that has become synonymous with his hotel chain.

    Taking Off—via Seaplane—to the Hamptons Marshall Heyman 2011

  • It's Spring and the sounds of raw, unbridled Amphibian Lust are in the air.

    Frogz! Steve Perry 2010

  • Volunteers of the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program, as the census is known, endure everything from the distracting sounds of cars and barking dogs to mosquitoes and chiggers.

    Is That the Croak of the Pickerel? Frog Census Is a Tad Uncertain 2010

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