W ith long tails, slender bodies, and four legs, salamanders and lizards look the same at first glance. Many people even believe salamanders are a type of lizard, but that’s not the case at all.

Salamanders are often mistaken for lizards, but the two groups are very different. Tiger salamanders are a common species found in Indiana. The bright spotting is probably a sign to predators that ...

However, while lizards are reptiles possessing scaly skin, teeth and claws, salamanders have a soft, porous skin and neither teeth nor claws. They breathe through their skin Their porous skin ...

The common lizards in our area are the fence lizard and the various skinks. Like salamanders, they have tails that will regenerate quickly after being detached. This serves as a predator defense.

With more than 500 species, the salamander is a brightly-donned (and pretty darn adorable) feat of nature. ... But alas, salamanders are not lizards, nor can they live in fire.

“It is so chilly that it puts out fire by its contact, in the same way as ice does. It vomits from its mouth a milky slaver, one touch of which on any part of the human body causes all the hair ...

Star Trek fans have thrown a yearly party for one of the worst episodes of Star Trek ever made: Star Trek: Voyager’s “Threshold,” the one where the lizards bang.

Scuba diving scientists are scouring riverbeds for the elusive, endangered hellbender – also known as the snot otter, or lasagne lizard – to give them a fighting chance of survival.

The researchers captured, tagged, and relocated these salamanders to a different part of the Watauga River in North Carolina while U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologists and engineers carefully ...

The axolotl is a type of salamander. It has a long tail, flat head, and four lizard-like limbs, which it uses to move around the lake floor. But unlike other salamanders, axolotls are neotenic ...

KATHMANDU — When zoologist Bivek Gautam and members of his team were on an expedition to look for the Himalayan salamander (Tylototriton himalayanus) in 2020 in the forests of eastern Nepal ...