Douglas County’s salamanders will get their own crossing guards. The Save the Wakarusa Wetlands coalition is rounding up volunteers to help the small creatures cross 31st Street, the busy roadway that ...

Squeezed waist-deep into the dampness under a boulder the size of an SUV, Erin Gaylord just found a spiderweb. With her face. Next to her, scrunched under the same rock, Nicole Cobb is trying to help ...

Here are the facts as we know them: At 9:35 on the morning of November 25, the staff of the San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center dialed local police to report the disappearance of nearly three hundred ...

In a monastery beside a 16th-century basilica in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, Dominican nuns move between rows of aquarium tanks, ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity today announced the addition of another $5,000 to the reward for information leading to a conviction or fine in the disappearance of hundreds of ...

Imagine you're walking on a path near a creek, and you kick a mossy log, and a salamander slithers out. Do you scream and run, or do you bend down and take a closer look? How you react -- with fear or ...

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have ...

Folk belief held that salamanders were not merely fireproof, but so coldblooded they could extinguish flames. Another tale claimed that the magical animals fell from the sky. The 16th-century Swiss ...

A: Great question! Though salamanders are sometimes called “spring lizards,” they’re not really lizards. Lizards are reptiles and salamanders are amphibians. Both are ectothermic, or cold-blooded, but ...

Newts are small semi-aquatic amphibians that look like a cross between a frog and a lizard. Newts possess several interesting characteristics. For example, though they may look cute and harmless, they ...

SAN ANTONIO— The Center for Biological Diversity today added $5,000 to the reward for information leading to a conviction or fine in the disappearance of hundreds of endangered salamanders from a San ...

SAN MARCOS, Texas – Fifteen thousand dollars is now the reward for information on hundreds of endangered salamanders that have been missing for two months from their home at a U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...