In the Talmud, the baby Hezekiah is saved from the fires of the dreaded Moloch when his mother smears him with salamander blood. Perhaps someone sees something similarly magical in the Texas blind.

Two-headed baby salamander isn't radioactive, but it is weird By LiveScience Published December 12, 2014 8:59am EST | Updated October 21, 2015 12:20pm EDT ...

A Texas blind salamander at the National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center in San Marcos, Texas, in 2011. The endangered species is found only in the Edwards Aquifer. Eric Gay/AP.

Federal officials have proposed adding four Central Texas salamander species for the endangered species list and designated 6,000 acres of Central Texas as critical habitat.

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 below ...

Baby hellbender salamanders don't stand a chance against their fathers who have gone rogue and started cannibalizing their offspring. For the past eight years, scientists from Virginia Tech have ...

The salamander fossil dates back to between 20 million and 30 million years old and was found in an amber mine. The amber sample containing the hatchling measures under an inch in length.

Just call them "Arne" and "Sebastian." Those are the monikers given to the two separate heads of one baby salamander that was born last week in a lab in Israel. Researchers aren't sure why the ...