Salamanders and lizards have similar silhouettes, but the two creatures couldn’t be more different in terms of behaviors and lifestyles.

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.

Sara Viernum/Flickr. Though they may look like lizards, salamanders are closely related to frogs and toads. As amphibians, salamanders emerge from their eggs looking similar to tadpoles, but they ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A deconstruction project in North Carolina is part of a broader trend in removing dams to clean up water and restore habitats, and giant salamanders could reap the benefits.

A federal judge has vacated a Trump-era decision that the eastern hellbender should not be granted protections under the Endangered Species Act.

And they represent some of America's most imperiled species of toads, salamanders, lizards, turtles and snakes, the group says.

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 ...