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Massachusetts residents, meet the critter who could become one of the state’s newest official animals. A group of students from Andover have made it their mission to bring awareness to the ...
An interesting aspect of Jefferson salamander biology is their complex hybridization with blue-spotted salamanders, creating populations with varied chromosome numbers that may influence freeze ...
ETSU researchers uncover a giant fossil salamander, shedding light on Appalachian biodiversity and ancient salamander evolution.
Two Vermont underpasses are model wildlife crossings after a community rallied to stop thousands of migrating salamanders from being run over on a Monkton road.
For Alabama’s Spotted Salamanders, a Win and a Warning A grassroots effort successfully pushed back on a development in Homewood that would have destroyed a critical salamander habitat.
Other amphibians known to use Long Island vernal pools include cousins to the Spotted Salamander: Marbled, Blue-spotted and Eastern Tiger Salamanders (a New York State endangered species), Red-spotted ...
Other amphibians known to use Long Island vernal pools include cousins to the Spotted Salamander: Marbled, Blue-spotted and Eastern Tiger Salamanders (a New York State endangered species), Red-spotted ...
Meet the Spotted Salamander Photo by Adobe Stock The yellow-spotted salamander is a slippery, shiny Mississippi amphibian. Also known as Ambystoma maculatum, this is a large amphibian, measuring ...
A terrestrial salamander, it happened to be resting under a rock near a shallow pond where Fitzpatrick saw two spotted salamander egg masses. “Salamanders have a certain amount of charisma,” the ...
The spotted salamander has been heralding the season’s arrival for millions of years.
A number of amazing creatures have fooled us into thinking they went extinct either millions of years ago or in modern times, only to be rediscovered.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Ijams Nature Center is excited about eggs they spotted in a pond this week. What they spotted were spotted salamander eggs. The Ijams team posted on social media to tell ...