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

SASAYAMA, Japan — It’s big and slimy, with bulbous fingertips and a fat, flipper-like tail. It hides under rocks during the day and comes out to feed at night, sucking anything that passes into its ...

This seems to me to be the summer of the salamanders. I suppose this is true for most water-loving things-fungi, slugs, and many of the vegetables in my garden that I’ve apparently always ...

Releasing Chinese giant salamanders back into the wild sounds like a good idea, but it's causing problems for the salamanders ...

Scientists have identified a new species of salamander living in murky swamps and marshes of the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama. The green salamander has frilly, fern-like external gills on ...

A population of mole salamanders in the Midwest is throwing a curveball at our understanding of sex and reproduction. Some populations of this salamander are unisexual—they’re females that can ...

Students at Powell Elementary School in D.C. studied the red-backed salamander and thought that its red strips looked like the District’s flag. Now the D.C. Council is considering a bill to designate ...

Hellbender salamanders used to be common in streams across Kentucky, but their numbers have been on the decline in recent years. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Kentucky ...