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The Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy, a national nonprofit to conserve imperiled wildlife, is leading the efforts for this ...
The Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy released 1,204 frosted flatlands salamanders in Florida's panhandle in April to help boost the endangered species' wild populations.
It is home to salamanders called olms, which locals once believed were baby dragons. The olm, a sightless salamander found in caves in Slovenia, Italy, and Albania, can live to be a hundred years old.
Where are the salamanders hanging out? Answering that question has been Jake Kushner’s mission — especially in the face of a proposed project by an energy company that will lay a transmission ...
Traffic on a busy roadway in Canada has halted for several weeks — not due to construction or road repairs, but to protect a tiny, slithery creature: the Jefferson salamander. The city of ...
The various Ensatina salamanders of the Pacific coast all descended from a common ancestral population. As the species spread southward from Oregon and Washington, subpopulations adapted to their ...
Two Vermont underpasses are model wildlife crossings after a community rallied to stop thousands of migrating salamanders ...
The salamanders, a species called olms, were once believed to be baby dragons. While we now know they won’t sprout wings, olms still seem like mythical creatures. About the length of a banana ...
The salamanders have been released onto privately owned timberland property in Santa Rosa County north of Pace The reticulated flatwoods salamander once thrived in coastal plain forests beneath ...
They are giant salamanders. “Salamanders are big, and they’re cool,” said Sena Ishikawa, a master’s student studying the animals at Kyoto University. “I just love them.” Such passion ...
Dr. Rainer Schoch of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany, studied the feeding behavior of extant salamanders and subsequently used the results of these analyses to draw ...