It’s a crisp January morning in Chattanooga. Birds rustle and chirp as they flit through tall grasses and short, scrubby trees. The Tennessee River flows placidly between sharp hills next to the ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (CN) — Recognizing its importance as an indicator species for clean water, Pennsylvania lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to designate a state amphibian: an enormous salamander ...

AUSTIN, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save Our Springs Alliance today filed a formal petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide Endangered Species Act protection ...

Salamanders and newts are both long-tailed amphibians, but what's the difference between them?

The Northern California wine industry has become a key laboratory for significant nationwide trends in endangered-species regulation. The prominent national and California species issues that have ...

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

Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 104-109 (6 pages) Research on landscape connectivity for amphibians that use isolated wetlands has focused on terrestrial and semiterrestrial ...

A spotted salamander rests on a fallen log. Some salamander species are transforming from aquatic larvae to amphibious adults this week in Missouri. Watch for these unique creatures in the woods and ...

Many patterns observed in ecology, such as species richness, life history variation, habitat use, and distribution, have physiological underpinnings. For many ectothermic organisms, temperature ...