field and forest are bustling with plant and animal life. In this region, winter is the time to see the yellow-bellied sapsucker (a woodpecker, not a Victorian insult) and the spotted salamander ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander to its list of endangered species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal to do so was ...

How salamanders manage to move around on uneven, vertical tree surfaces with such dexterity has long baffled scientists. A new discovery suggests they use a trick out of a horror movie ...

Still frame image showing the hindfoot of a live Wandering Salamander (Aneides vagrans) from a ventral perspective just before the salamander takes a step forward. This image shows the large ...

However, the red-backed salamander has surmounted all possible obstacles to become D.C.’s official amphibian. Students from Powell Bilingual Elementary School testified last September before the ...

Could the eastern hellbender salamander become the newest endangered species in Tennessee? It's possible. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander ...

Slippery salamanders glide mysteriously through the canopies of the world’s tallest trees. Now, scientists say they understand how the small skydivers are able to maneuver seamlessly across California ...

While leaping through the trees might sound fun, take-off and landing require a certain level of precision (unless you're a ...

Decades of decline for eastern hellbender The eastern hellbender, an aquatic salamander whose adults ... And its long life cycle - hellbenders can live more than 30 years in the wild and need ...