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The German Society for Herpetology and Herpetoculture (DGHT) has officially designated the Alpine Salamander (Salamandra atra) as the Amphibian of the Year...
The Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), affectionately—or perhaps unflatteringly—nicknamed the "Snot Otter" or "Devil Dog," stands as the larges...
The Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy announced that it has released 1,204 frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) larva into a wetland that th...
The Center for Biological Diversity notified the Trump administration today that it intends to sue over ongoing violations of the Endangered Spec...
These amphibians evolved unique strategies to move around the canopies of the world’s tallest trees. With mottled brown skin and a body small enough to ...
You may be asking yourself right now why I have posted a picture of a salamander this morning. This is a plant blog after all! Well, what I am about to tel...
A recently published study sheds light on the ecological importance of red-backed salamanders in the northeastern United States."We have always known the r...
Males of hellbender salamander normally tend their young, but lately they’ve been devouring them instead. Cannibalism isn't the only human-influenced ca...
An international team led by Dr. Daniel Schwarz and Prof. Dr. Rainer Schoch of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany, studi...
Male Eastern hellbender normally tends their young, but lately they’ve been devouring them instead. Eastern hellbenders once swam in at least 570 s...
Unisexual salamander Ambystoma appear to be the only creatures in the world that reproduce the way they do. These salamanders seem to have the bene...
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Lab are developing crosswalks for wildlife on the reservation, especially four-toed salamander, who is considered at risk....
The gigantic, slimy salamanders known as hellbenders, are disappearing. No one knew why. William Hopkins, professor in the Department of Fish and Wildli...
A new salamander species of the genus Bolitoglossa is here described from the cloud forests of the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia. ...
In a paper published last month in the journal Scientific Reports, biologists Jonathan Cox and Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Plethodon metcalfi)—a salamander foun...
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces that a zoo-raised Ozark hellbender has successfully reproduced within the Current River. “We are...
Normally secretive and rarely seen, the salamanders emerge by the hundreds from their underground burrows to gather at breeding ponds at Tyson Research Cen...
For 7 years, the scientists cared for hellbenders—North America's largest salamander at the zoo, preparing them for life in the river they’re now standing ...
In an effort to learn more about the distribution of hellbenders and mudpuppies, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources has launched a citizen sci...
In many places, busy roads lie between newts and their breeding grounds. In Petaluma and other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, thousands of newts are ...
What are the impacts of wildfire on the Sacramento Mountain salamander? These are some of the questions that Dr. Nancy Karraker and students in her lab at ...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking the public to report any observations of mudpuppies (aquatic salamanders) they may accidentally cat...
The 10,000th hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi) captive bred in Saint Louis Zoo, were released into an Ozark river. Read more info about...
A new species of Caudata representatives, namely Yangsan clawed salamander (Onychodactylus sillanus) was described from the extreme southeast of the Korean...
