The western tiger salamander, scientifically known as Ambystoma ... “They’ve been known to burrow in the ground as deep as 2 feet,” he said. In areas with soft soil, the salamander digs ...

While transmitters have been deployed to track small animals, the tiger salamander’s burrowing lifestyle means that anything attached to its body risks getting rubbed off and eventually removed.

Secreted in the ground, mole salamanders in the genus Ambystoma burrow or explore the tunnels ... and in my estimation the eastern tiger salamander is the most sensational. These beasts can ...

Eastern tiger salamanders have been known to burrow into the sand and soil in cattle dugouts like this one in the southeast. (Colin Murray) Thus far, researchers have gone salamander hunting in ...

Federal officials granted protected status Monday to the California tiger salamander, giving environmentalists a major victory and provoking the ire of farmers and developers around the state.

The Eastern tiger salamander had lived in the mid-Atlantic region since the ice ages: Its presence can be traced back 14,000 years along Virginia’s coastal plains, and 400,000 years in the Blue ...