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For her doctoral dissertation, Yale’s Nathalie Alomar decided to study a small amphibian that appeared to have eluded the forces of evolution. She found that there is more to its evolution than meets ...

An international research team led by scientists from the Museum of Natural Sciences in Barcelona, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council ...

The Upper Peninsula's blue-spotted salamanders are out and about this spring as they mate and lay eggs in wetlands, and a Northern Michigan University program is keeping watch over them. Each spring, ...

Biologist Michael Reichmuth was recently snorkeling in Olema Creek in Point Reyes National Seashore when he spotted California giant salamander larvae, a sight never before captured on a photograph, ...

A park ranger patrolling remote streams in California recently stumbled onto something most people will never see in their lifetime: a California giant salamander, one of the largest amphibians on the ...

One unseasonably warm, rainy night in mid-March, thousands of salamanders emerged from their underground burrows across Central New York. They crawled over the cold, damp earth, pulled by instinct ...

When walks and deep breathing no longer soothe your stress, it’s time to look for a few new ways to calm down. On the wellness side of TikTok, many people are turning to the salamander pose — a simple ...

Known as the spotted salamander, these yellow polka-dotted amphibians can grow to the whopping length of nearly 10 inches long, though on average they are six to eight inches long. “When you see them ...

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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. Andy Hill keeps a wetsuit and snorkel in his car at all times.

The frosted flatwoods salamander is a threatened species now found in only three locations in Georgia and Florida. Conservationists are surveying the salamander population at Fort Stewart, which ...