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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Marbled salamanders are unusual in that they emerge at this time of year to crawl about, breed and lay eggs on dead leaves and other debris in small, temporarily dry ponds. When autumn rains fill ...

“These populations aren’t very large, so even one salamander being hit would have an impact,” Zagorski said. The number of Jefferson salamanders in Ontario is not known, but in 2010, it was ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...