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Among the biggest of its kind, this fossil find is helping scientists trace how today's diverse species are connected.
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 ...
Watch Salamanders Skydive! Season 11 Episode 11 | 3m 47s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Wandering salamanders can skydive in the branches of the tallest trees in the world. When a hungry bird ...
DALLAS COUNTY, Iowa — Salamanders are making their annual migration ahead of wintertime in Dallas County. The tiger salamanders leave their underground habitats and cross the road to get to the ...
With 58 species of salamanders – more than one tenth of all the world’s salamander species – Georgia is a global “hot spot” for the amphibians.
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.
The tiny amphibians have evolved a human-like strategy for soaring from California’s old-growth redwoods, a new study says. An adult wandering salamander (Aneides vagrans) clings to the bark of ...
Salamanders are quiet and cute little amphibians, and they're abundant in our region. In fact, Will Harlan, the Southeast Director and Senior Scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, ...
Unisexual salamanders in the genus Ambystoma appear to be the only creatures in the world that reproduce the way they do. Researchers know how, but the why is still being figured out.
To protect Barton Springs and blind salamanders, the city and the water managers have to adhere to a Habitat Conservation Plan, per the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Endangered Species Act.
Human-caused climate change is threatening amphibians around the world, a new study published Wednesday suggests. In fact, 2 out of every 5 amphibian species are now threatened with extinction ...
“These populations aren’t very large, so even one salamander being hit would have an impact,” Zagorski said. The number of Jefferson salamanders in Ontario is not known, but in 2010, it was ...