(CN) — After a 10-year legal battle between the Center for Biological Diversity and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, two species of salamander won federal protections under the Endangered Species ...

LOW NUMBERS: Scientists estimate there are only a few hundred Hickory Gorge green salamanders left in the wild. Photo by Todd Pierson, courtesy of the Center for Biological Diversity The Hickory Nut ...

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The Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander, found only in its namesake gorge southeast of Asheville, is being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. With total population numbers in the ...

“After surveying 97 sites, we found salamanders in only four localities,” Andrew Cunningham, a conservation biologist at the Zoological Society of London and coauthor of one of the studies, tells ...

CARLSBAD, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting two species of salamander in Southern California under the Endangered Species Act, while denying protections to a third.

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it would consider protecting the yellow-spotted woodland salamander under the Endangered Species Act. The agency now has 12 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed adding the salamander mussel, considered a silent sentinel of the health of rivers and streams in Michigan and elsewhere around the country, to the ...

Scientists discovered an “incredibly rare” new animal species in Fujian, a study said. The photo shows a representative bamboo forest in China. Photo from Vicky T via Unsplash Tucked amid the ...