When ships dock in the Port of Mobile, customs officers have to check to see if there are any salamanders on board—and what kind. Checking is especially important for Alabama, a hotspot for the slimy ...

A rare lungless creature — speckled with yellow spots — breathes through its skin and lives in ancient rock faces of Appalachia in the southeastern U.S. It’s a “mascot of the mountains” and at risk of ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

Salamanders are amphibians that look like a cross between a frog and a lizard. Their bodies are long and slender; their skin is moist and usually smooth; and they have long tails. Salamanders are very ...

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 ...

You, me, the lemurs in the trees, the snakes in the desert, and the squid in the deep sea—all of us began as a single cell. From the largest creature that’s ever existed—the blue whale—to the ...

Red-backed salamanders are little lungless salamanders that live in the deciduous forests of eastern and central U.S. and up into Canada. They have one of the biggest distributions of any North ...

The ensatina is a widespread salamander species that can be found in forests along the entire western coast of North America. It is one of only two species that broadly lives up to the “ring species” ...

In the first century AD, Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder threw a salamander into a fire. He wanted to see if it could indeed not only survive the flames, but extinguish them, as Aristotle had claimed ...