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 ...

A gravel company operating just north of San Marcos, Texas, dug up a spring in the dry bed of the Blanco River. Some water oozed out, and in it were several pale-white salamanders.

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 Vermont underpasses are model wildlife crossings after a community rallied to stop thousands of migrating salamanders from being run over on a Monkton road.

Vernal pools fill with spring rain or melting snow and dry out by late summer. This is an essential quality of a vernal pool. Fish can’t survive a dry-out, which means that the larvae of frogs ...

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

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 ...