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 ...

"The hellbender" is a strange name for a salamander, but then again "salamander" is a strange name, too! The hellbender salamander (Crytobranchus alleganiesis) is the largest aquatic salamander in ...

"It's one of those things where all newts are salamanders, but all salamanders aren't newts," Nick Burgmeier, a research ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Salamanders living in the Pedernales River are on track to become a federally-recognized endangered species. On Tuesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it initiated a ...

Wildlife biologists get picture of rare giant salamander in Kentucky River. It's the picture that has wildlife biologists buzzing. A rarely seen giant salamander, called the Eastern Hellbender, is ...

AUSTIN, Texas — We're no strangers to drought in Central Texas. In fact, words like "drought," "water conservation" and "water shortage" tend to lose their meaning after multiple years of ...

On a cold April evening, a dozen biologists and conservationists headed into a wooded area of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, over 2,500 acres of forest, wetlands, and hills in portions of Malden, ...

As hellbender salamander populations continue to decline, university researchers have new ideas on how to find them in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BLUE RIVER, Ind. — For the first time in 30 ...

RESTRICTIONS ARE IN PLACE UNTIL FRIDAY. IT’S TEMPTING TO PICK OUT AN EXOTIC CREATURE FROM A PET STORE. IT SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY HARMLESS PURCHASE, RIGHT? YEAH, BUT THOSE PETS CAN OFTEN CARRY DISEASES ...