With California now facing yearly threats of devastating wildfires, a Dominican University researcher is looking to salamanders as a potential indicator of the fires' impact on wildlife. In a bit of ...

A fire salamander moves slowly across a moss-covered forest floor, its bright yellow patterns standing out against the greenery. The moment highlights the species’ striking appearance in its natural ...

More species of amphibians have become threatened with extinction, according to a global assessment that reviewed 8,000 species. While 2004 saw 39% of the species being threatened, about 41% are now ...

A new species of fungus that eats amphibians' skin has ravaged the fire salamander population in the Netherlands, bringing it close to regional extinction. Fire salamanders, recognisable by their ...

HOUSE FIRE: A Thursday fire heavily damaged a home at 118 Duane Ave. in Bedford Township. Klara Greer, 20, said she and others living in the house had been gone for about an hour and returned to find ...

When Bsal first arrived in the Netherlands, the pathogen wiped out 96 percent of the resident population of fire salamanders in a few years. Wikimedia Commons They didn’t see it coming. By the time ...

A newly discovered fungus that feasts on the skin of amphibians is threatening to decimate a species of salamander in the Netherlands, according to new research. Fire salamanders are one of the most ...

A fire salamander moves carefully over moss-covered ground, its black and yellow skin shining under natural forest light. The ...

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), the “salamander-eating” fungus, was first described in 2013 after it had almost entirely killed off several populations of fire salamanders in Europe.

“It is so chilly that it puts out fire by its contact, in the same way as ice does. It vomits from its mouth a milky slaver, one touch of which on any part of the human body causes all the hair to ...

Some time around 2008, a mysterious disease started killing off the Netherlands’ fire salamanders. Three years later, 96 percent were dead. The disease turned out to be Batrachochytrium ...