For spotted salamander embryos nearing hatching, they get by with a little help – not from friends, but from animals that are actually their predators. Voracious frog tadpoles chew on the egg masses, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: USGS In bogs near Tallahassee, Florida, scientists crouched through grass and mud in a race against time, searching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) crawls near a cypress swamp at night in Carbondale, Illinois. Emanuele Biggi, Minden ...

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 ...

When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking campaign to save the... Inside the effort to save one of America's most imperiled ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Ellen McLaughlin said she wasn’t speaking for herself. “I speak for the salamanders,” she told those gathered at a community meeting in late March. McLaughlin, a retired Samford ...

In the forests across the eastern United States there hides a large, nearly mythical creature most people have never seen. Known as the spotted salamander, these yellow polka-dotted amphibians can ...

NEAR TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Nicole Dahrouge is not a salamander. Crouched in a bog, hands searching through short grass, she states it aloud for the second time in the last hour, almost like an ...