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 ...

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 ...

The Barton Springs Salamander is an endangered species that thrives on the waters of Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Different cell types have different functions. They are able to specialize in certain roles because they each express different genes. Understanding what types of cells are in the brain and what ...

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 ...