All the better to eat their brethren with—but why? The process of "shape shifting" under environmental pressure is called phenotypic plasticity. Long-toed salamanders only do so in the larval stage.

Salamanders eat things that bigger consumers can't eat ... The findings are published in the journal Conservation Biology. "If we do nothing to manage Bsal, the model forecasted that the disease ...

Although axolotls look like the 'tadpole' form of most salamanders, they do become adults in the sense that they are ... Axolotls are often the top predators in their native habitats. They eat ...

Natural closeup on a bright red Western redback salamander, Plethodon vehiculum sitting on the ground.(Getty Images/Wirestock) Fourth grade students from Powell Elementary School testified ...