Two Vermont underpasses are model wildlife crossings after a community rallied to stop thousands of migrating salamanders ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

A well-studied example of a ring species is the salamander Ensatina escholtzii of the Pacific Coast region of the United States. In Southern California, naturalists have found what look like two ...

Until recently, it was thought that 30 species of salamander live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But a recent article in Bionomia, the international journal devoted to biological naming ...

Participants in a recent "Nature in a Blink" salamander hike at Indian Creek MetroPark in Butler County. "When we were here Saturday, they were all throughout the trail, different types too ...

The five pieces of art are made up of a tiger salamander, a snapping turtle and three types of frogs: a leopard frog, a bull frog and a crawfish frog. For the past several years, the Missouri ...

Traffic on a busy roadway in Canada has halted for several weeks — not due to construction or road repairs, but to protect a tiny, slithery creature: the Jefferson salamander. The city of ...

Most recently, that includes one elusive giant salamander: the Eastern hellbender. The storm threatened to damage the rivers it inhabits. Even if the hellbenders survived, he recalls thinking ...

The Cow Knob salamander is standing — well, crawling — in the path of progress. The little amphibian lives nowhere in the world but a few mountain ridges in a wild and scenic region along the ...

Basically, if we want these at-risk salamander species to be around in the future, doing something proactively is our best bet." The types of proactive management actions considered included ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it would consider protecting the yellow-spotted woodland salamander under the Endangered Species Act. The agency now has 12 ...

Over 40 years later, researchers exploring a bamboo forest near Quxi village “unexpectedly” rediscovered the salamander, the study said. The “incredibly rare” new species was named ...