Most salamanders begin life in the water as gilled larvae, then transform into air-breathing adults that crawl onto land. The ...

The axolotl looks like a creature invented for a fairy tale, a pale, perpetually smiling salamander with feathery gills ...

North Carolina is home to one of the rarest salamanders in the world. Biologists are racing to save it from extinction.

The Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, weighing upwards of 140 pounds and growing to a length of more than 5.9 feet Petr Hamerník - Zoo Praha via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

The tiny amphibians have evolved a human-like strategy for soaring from California’s old-growth redwoods, a new study says. An adult wandering salamander (Aneides vagrans) clings to the bark of a ...

Found only in eastern NC, this fully aquatic salamander is rapidly disappearing due to human activity.

The storm decimated a region rich with dozens of species already struggling with habitat loss and disease Alexa Robles-Gil | Daily Correspondent When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North ...

Aneides vagrans, also called the wandering salamander, is an elusive critter. Its natural habitat is the canopy of California's redwood trees, the world's tallest trees, making it tough to observe.

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Amphibians aren't usually known for their parental care. When an amphibian does look after its eggs or young, it's usually the mother's job. But new research suggests the Japanese giant salamander ...

In the rivers of China and Japan dwells a salamander so huge that it positively dwarfs its American cousin, the massive 2.5-foot "snot otter" (which, as it happens, is what they called me in high ...