Years of work by Sonoma County wine grape growers to reform county erosion-control rules helped the latest deal with federal regulators on saving and creating California tiger salamander habitat. The ...

RESTRICTIONS ARE IN PLACE UNTIL FRIDAY. IT’S TEMPTING TO PICK OUT AN EXOTIC CREATURE FROM A PET STORE. IT SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY HARMLESS PURCHASE, RIGHT? YEAH, BUT THOSE PETS CAN OFTEN CARRY DISEASES ...

These flaws have allowed it to be used more as a weapon of obstruction than as a tool for species recovery. Despite the laudable efforts of those involved in the now-defunct Santa Rosa Plain ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — In East Tennessee, there are cows resting and homes swallowed by greenery. Salamanders like Henry are out there too, but Henry lives in a lab at the Center for Wildlife Health.

That rather cynical question has been asked since the world first conceived of the idea of preserving endangered species. There was a time before that, when humans (not all humans, mind you) didn’t ...

To aid randy California tiger salamanders making their way from their home in the Stanford Hills to their breeding ground in Lake Lagunita, Stanford University opened up a special tunnel under ...

Q. Salamanders come in many colors and are widespread, yet they seem to be one of the least-appreciated groups of animals. Most of my friends have never even seen one. What interesting facts could I ...

"It's one of those things where all newts are salamanders, but all salamanders aren't newts," Nick Burgmeier, a research ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Ellen ...

TODDVILLE - Salamanders are on the move in Iowa, heading back to the ponds and wetlands where they were born so they can spawn. These secretive black or dark gray amphibians with colored spots can ...

The Cow Knob salamander is standing — well, crawling — in the path of progress. The little amphibian lives nowhere in the world but a few mountain ridges in a wild and scenic region along the Virginia ...