With four legs for crawling, a slender and long body, and even a similar tail, salamanders and lizards can be hard to tell apart. Although they look alike, they belong to completely different classes.

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Winter is a difficult time for many animals. Food is scarcer and the temperature is colder. Starvation is a huge threat. Many mammals, amphibians and reptiles spend East Tennessee's colder months ...

Did you know that North Carolina has 64 distinct species of salamander, more than any other state in the country. And, the state is among the most salamander-rich areas in the world? Those are the ...

They may not be cuddly, charismatic or cute to many humans, but amphibians and reptiles are fascinating and important. That was the message on Oct. 25 when Alonso Abugattas gave a tutorial to 85 ...

FREMONT — On the last Sunday of every month, Terra State Community College gets a little slimy as dozens of varieties of reptiles, amphibians, mammals and fish are sold at the BRM Reptile and Exotics ...

Some of our region’s mammals and birds either hibernate or migrate to survive the cold winter season of limited food resources. Snug in dens, they snooze through the cold weeks and months or fly ...

Cedulie Benoit-Smith is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. When Jim Andrews began work on the Vermont Reptile and ...