From frogs to salamanders to the axolotl, amphibians are the most threatened animal group in the world. Pollution, habitat loss and a pandemic-level fungus have brought countless species to the brink ...

Scientists found a “fire-bellied” creature in a waterhole of the Huanggangshan Mountains and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Jiang, Huang, Fan, Cheng, Gong, Cui, Zhang, Lan, Zou, ...

Scientists found a “slender” creature with a bright orange belly in a mountain lake of Guangdong and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto In a mountain lake of eastern ...

Copeia is an internationally respected, widely-cited quarterly that publishes original research on fishes, amphibians and reptiles, emphasizing systematics, ecology, conservation, behavior, genetics, ...

The red-bellied newt (Taricha rivularis), common along the coast in northern California, migrates from upland areas to breed in streams in the spring. It is one of hundreds of species of salamanders ...

One of my favorite memories is hiking up Mount Kearsarge with my dad and finding tiny red newts climbing along the trails with us. These are the “teenage” stage of the Eastern red-spotted newt, a type ...