Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Rackham student Matthew Chatfield carefully inspects ...

The southern gray-cheeked salamander is found only in the Smokies and some high-elevation areas in Western North Carolina. ... lined, long-tailed, black chinned, or red cheeked, ...

"The red-cheeked salamander is endemic to the Smoky Mountains, only found in a small range of high-elevation areas in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and a few little areas nearby," Stickley says.

As the students arrive, he helps them identify the usual suspects, like the imitator or red-cheeked salamander. Each specimen is gently rinsed with distilled water, identified, ...

The revelations come at a time when red-cheeked salamanders are showing up in all kinds of unexpected places for tourists in the nation’s “most visited national park. ...

Carly enjoying the beauty of the red-cheeked salamander in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Image: Courtesy Carly Muletz Wolz. Staying close to home all this time has given Muletz ...

“The red-cheeked salamander is endemic to the Smoky Mountains, only found in a small range of high-elevation areas in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and a few little areas nearby ...

The red-cheecked salamander has a defense mechanism (or 'superpower') where it releases poisonous slime.

The tiny red-backed salamander is typically found in leaf litter or under logs in the city’s woodlands. They’re the most abundant vertebrae in eastern American forests.

The revelations come at a time when red-cheeked salamanders are showing up in all kinds of unexpected places for tourists in the nation’s “most visited national park. ...