State lawmakers are considering a whole slew of additions to Massachusetts' list of official "things", from a sedimentary ...

Blue spotted salamanders may look small and harmless, but they have a surprising (and stinky) way of defending themselves. In ...

The Hong Kong newt (Paramesotriton hongkongensis), which has an orange-spotted belly and is typically 15 centimeters in ...

Sources in the administration said on Thursday that the initiatives involved the rejuvenation of jhoras (hill streams), ...

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 ...

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.

Justice & Health 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 ...

Every year in late February, the spotted salamander population off Polo Grounds Road returns to the ponds of its birth to procreate.

In Alabama, a fight for the spotted salamander As a private university expands its footprint and threatens the amphibian’s habitat, residents are voicing their opposition and searching for ...

The spotted and blue-spotted salamanders, for example, belong to a group referred to as “mole salamanders,” because after breeding, they retreat underground or under logs or stumps, and may not be ...

Examples include the Jefferson Salamander, the blue-spotted salamander, wood and green frogs, the fingernail clam, box turtles, wood ducks, ringneck snakes and toads. Students in Brooke Kamienski’s AP ...