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 ...

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.

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y.— New York has added the Atlantic Coast leopard frog, eastern fence lizard and eastern tiger salamander to its protected threatened and endangered species lists. The state’s Department of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...