The creature spends most of the year underground and migrates to temporary pools and ponds to mate and lay egg masses.

An even larger species is the hellbender, a big fleshy salamander of river bottoms. In New York, only a few drainages along the southern border are home to hellbenders. Red-spotted newts begin life as ...

Dr. Matson has been introducing wood frogs and spotted salamanders into the lagoon for the last several years. He is researching the effects of metal toxicity on northeast Ohio amphibians and conducts ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it would consider protecting the yellow-spotted woodland salamander under the Endangered Species Act. The agency now has 12 ...

Due to their adaptive immune systems, it's been long assumed that vertebrates are unable to share cellular space with another organism in a mutualistic relationship. But within various tissues and ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to decide whether the yellow-spotted woodland ...