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A snorkeling biologist snapped the first-ever photos of newly hatched California giant salamanders in the wild. Here’s why that's a big deal
At first, they looked like fish. The cluster of one-inch-long, swimming creatures was tucked beneath rocks in frigid creek ...
Salamanders emerge from their underground homes to cross busy roads during the spring breeding migration season. Salamanders lay up to 450 eggs in vernal pools every spring. Volunteers help document ...
Western New York’s stealthy upland salamanders quietly defy everything nature lovers thought they knew about wildlife. During a recent trail walk among trilliums at Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, ...
A pair of studies from UT Austin offer insights into these keystone species. Eureycea salamanders (left, credit: Yaqing Li) and Ambystoma salamanders (right, credit: David Ledesma) feature in two ...
The California tiger salamander relies on seasonal ponds to breed. But for decades, the species has been under pressure from non-native salamanders introduced in the 1950s and 1960s for use as fishing ...
A red-backed salamander that is a chocolate brown base color with white speckling and a distinctly bright red-orange stripe running the length of its back from its neck to the tip of its tail rest on ...
AUSTIN, Texas — We're no strangers to drought in Central Texas. In fact, words like "drought," "water conservation" and "water shortage" tend to lose their meaning after multiple years of ...
These salamanders were spotted in a window well of a Cheyenne home and represented a sighting report during the “Report a Salamander” project last spring, which is a component of the Laramie ...
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