Natural closeup on a bright red Western redback salamander, Plethodon vehiculum sitting on the ground.(Getty Images/Wirestock) Fourth grade students from Powell Elementary School testified Wednesday ...

With spring bringing an influx of rainy days to Ohio, a slithery, slimy amphibian has emerged and is roaming around. Hellbenders are real, but we're not talking about those amphibians. Ohio is home to ...

Students at Powell Elementary School in D.C. studied the red-backed salamander and thought that its red strips looked like the District’s flag. Now the D.C. Council is considering a bill to designate ...

It’s not a swamp dweller, but the red-backed salamander is now the District’s official amphibian — thanks to lobbying by students at Powell Elementary School. The designation was retroactively ...

D.C. doesn’t have statehood or a vote in the Senate. It doesn’t have clusters of skyscrapers or rivers that are (officially) swimmable. But soon, it might have an official amphibian, thanks to a ...

Washingtonian first met nine-year-old Max Girshick in June, when he talked about a movement among his Powell Elementary School classmates to designate the eastern red-backed salamander as DC’s ...

A red-backed salamander that is a chocolate brown base color with white speckling and a distinctly bright red-orange stripe running the length of its back from its neck to the tip of its tail rest on ...

Michigan State University researchers contributed to a recent amphibian-focused study that shed light on the ecological importance of red-backed salamanders. Scientists knew that red-backed ...

This seems to me to be the summer of the salamanders. I suppose this is true for most water-loving things-fungi, slugs, and many of the vegetables in my garden that I’ve apparently always ...