Are amphibians just animals who are evolving?

They have been around for about 230 million years. Real slackers, need to get their act together.

Maybe the rest of us are evolving into amphibians.

If so, Salamanders are fricking terrible at it. They've existed for a long, long time.

Theyve found a niche and some will persist in that niche for longer than others.

Others will die off due to competition/environmental changes.

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Intelligent design is more plausible than some AI video

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It did take some giant leaps

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How did that creature survive long enough to become a chicken? Seems like they would have been eaten by everything.

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Maybe they were the delicacy of the jungle, but they reproduced like the menhaden or mullet of the sea and just kept coming.

Yes and no. Amphibians, like all living things never stop evolving. Evolution can occur slower or stagnate in a 'comfortable' niche, but it doesn't stop, so yes, amphibians are still evolving.

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Are they just land animals in the middle of evolving into aquatic animals / aquatic animals evolving to land animals?

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No. There is no defined middle stage in that sense, as that implies there is some sort of predetermined 'final form' , and this point causes a lot of confusion around evolution, leading to questions like, "if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys?"

That seriously is what a Jewfish looks like? I’ve never seen a picture of a Jewfish before. I’d only heard of a Jewfish because there’s a Jewfish Creek between the Florida Keys and the Florida mainland.

That is the ugliest fish I have ever seen. I’m probably going to have nightmares about that fish tonight. I’d find that fish name to be really anti-Semitic if I were a Jew. It’s like a fish that 4chan /pol/ would name after the Jews.

You can't think of it in terms of a step between two other things. They are adaptions to specific environments. Amphibian makes more sense in a wet biome, especially if it is seasonal.