Saving salamanders from amphibian killer may take extreme measures. Experience from outbreaks of lethal Bd fungus may help defend North America’s salamander paradise.

Now researchers fear the new fungus, discovered in 2013 and called B. salamandrivorans, or Bs, could massacre many of the salamanders lucky enough to escape Bd.Every single salamander from nearly ...

It’s like identifying the killer at a crime scene: When researchers come across a salamander in their search, they collect material on its skin, run a DNA test, and look for a match in their ...

If salamanders could worry, they would already have a long list of woes, including losing their homes to deforestation, or becoming an avian snack. But a newly discovered pathogen could easily trump ...

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.

Prime Video has dropped a new trailer for Fallout, and from what we’ve seen, it’s absolutely ridiculous. This adaptation of Bethesda’s globally popular video game series takes place in a ...

We just started hearing spring peepers and wood frogs calling from our local vernal pool last week. This means that their more secretive cousins, the spotted salamanders, are also on the move.

Hidden by their size and habits, salamanders — those charismatic microfauna integral to ecological functions — are equally worthy of consideration. Skip to content Local News ...

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: The giant salamander called the hellbender has been put on a list of species that may soon be considered endangered. Now, when fully grown, it takes two hands to just even hold one.

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.

Hellbender salamanders call Tennessee and 14 other states in the United States home, including Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia. The "healthiest" of eastern hellbender salamander habitats was ...

We met the ecologist Karen Lips in Washington, D.C. One morning, she picked us up from a Metro station and took us to Shenandoah National Park, keen to show us a species of salamander.