A vitally-needed school extension which had been held up because of great crested newts has been given the go-ahead.

An adult eastern newt that commonly inhabits ponds and wetlands in the eastern U.S. The research team will investigate various questions such as how temperature affects their susceptibility and ...

Enter the eastern newt, an amphibian with three different forms, whose ability to transform its body and its lifestyle makes its peers look like amateurs.

Newts are found in Europe, Asia, and North America. This lizard-frog look-alike belongs to the family Salamandridae, which includes partially terrestrial, or land-dwelling, salamanders.

Red efts are the juvenile land-dwelling stage of the aquatic eastern newt. With a bright orangish-red color and red spots within black halos, these little salamanders look almost magical, like ...

Christine Peterson is a freelance journalist who covers science, the environment, wildlife, and the outdoors. She is based in Laramie, Wyoming. One fall day in 1856, a family of Eastern gray ...

Enter the eastern newt, an amphibian with three different forms, whose ability to transform its body and its lifestyle makes its peers look like amateurs. All eastern newts begin life as jelly-coated ...

Red-spotted newt, or eastern newt, found outside native habitat for first time south of Everson, Wash. Amphibian experts are monitoring population, native ecology.

Such flexibility means that eastern newts are great at colonizing new areas and adapting to changing habitat conditions. “Eastern newts are really cool in their life history in that they can ...

Bsal is especially lethal to newts, including the eastern newt, a widespread species found across 33 states. The disease also poses a severe threat to rare populations of salamanders, especially given ...

Using existing data from controlled experiments and computer simulations, researchers have found that host contact rates and habitat structure affect transmission rates of Bsal among eastern newts ...

Here is some information about the Eastern or red-spotted newt. (Note that I use the term Eastern "or" red-spotted because the species is knows as both the Eastern and red-spotted newt, and in one ...