Salamanders are amphibians, not reptiles. There are over 700 species of salamanders globally, but all are classified as ...

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 ...

Goldilocks habitat. These salamanders, which live up to a decade or more, can’t exist without wetlands.For starters, without water, their eggs dry out and die. But also, when those eggs hatch ...

They breathe through their skin. Their porous skin works both for and against them. On the one hand, they must always be immersed in water, or at least live in a wet environment, or they’d dry out.

Fish can’t survive a dry-out, which means that the larvae of frogs, salamanders, all sorts of insects, and more, get a better chance to grow up. By Susan Hand Shetterly Photographs by Tristan ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

Just consider where the Blanco blind salamander lives: deep underground in the Edwards Aquifer, one of the least accessible places on Earth. The aquifer is a complex underground structure made of ...

Salamanders are fantastic pets because they are low-maintenance and amusing to watch. However, they have needs that require ...

Two underpasses costing $330,000 in the Lake Champlain Valley are a model effort showing how a Vermont community rallied behind thousands of tiny salamanders scurrying over the road yearly to ...

We just started hearing spring peepers and wood frogs calling from our local vernal pool last week. This means that their more secretive cousins, the spotted salamanders, are also on the move.

Researchers discovered the Chirripó web-footed salamander, a new species, high in Costa Rica’s Cerro Chirripó National Park. Learn about this discovery ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. ... During dry spells it moves deeper into the soil and leaf litter. Redbacks lay their eggs on land and metamorphose from the larvae to the adults ...