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In nature, a lot can change on a largely uninhabited Great Lakes island over the course of a century. That includes the disappearance and appearance of wildlife species.
Maine lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov. Janet Mills to bolster protections for seasonal wetlands that provide critical habitat for imperiled amphibians, insects, turtles and other wildlife. The bill ...
Some are only three inches long. Others can grow up to six inches in length. The state has the blue-spotted salamander that grows no more than five inches and consumes beetles, earthworms ...
Joshua Brown Researchers observed spotted salamanders using the underpasses. Joshua Brown In the Northeast, amphibians spend the winter hiding out below ground, as well as under rocks and logs.
As the Cahaba’s “charismatic” namesake lily blooms, an old festival and a new musical tribute celebrate Alabama’s longest ...
Busy roads are a death trap for migrating amphibians. New research shows rerouting them under the road is a lifesaver.
They found 5,273 amphibians, including 1,702 spotted salamanders and 2,545 spring peeper frogs. Nearly half of the salamanders and 70% of the frogs were dead. The death rates were much lower in ...
And when we took climbing amphibians out of the picture—which in our context are primarily spring peeper frogs—we noticed a 94% decrease in mortality in the treatment areas.” The underpass was built ...
They found 5,273 amphibians including 1,702 spotted salamanders, nearly half of which were dead, and 2,545 spring peeper frogs, nearly 70% of which were dead. The death rates were much lower in ...
Award-winning wildlife biologist and radio personality Bob Bancroft is returning to Macphail Woods in P.E.I. on Saturday, ...
If private landowners don’t remove invasives alongside natural areas, species like buckthorn will persist in forest preserves ...
But the proposed site overlapped a vital spotted salamander habitat — an amphibian so beloved in Homewood that the community has hosted a yearly salamander festival for the past 20 years.