Dominican nuns at a monastery in Mexico have become unlikely conservation heroes, maintaining the world’s largest captive population of critically endangered achoque salamanders, which number fewer ...

Scientists have identified a new salamander species in the remote páramo of Chirripó National Park, highlighting our country’s rich biodiversity and the pressing challenges facing high-altitude ...

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 ...

Scientists and a convent of nuns are an unlikely team of super-heroes. However they are working together to save a really rare species of salamander. They've developed a way to implant ID chips that ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and The Wilds in Ohio raise the amphibians until they reach adulthood to prepare the creatures for release Grahm S. Jones, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Ohio's Columbus Zoo ...

A recent visit to Salleyland, South Carolina, was as pleasant as could be expected on a muggy midsummer day while trudging through swamp mud and wiping spiderwebs from our faces. Even when I ...

A rare giant salamander called an eastern hellbender was spotted recently in Kentucky.The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Services posted a photo of the hellbender taken by one of their ...

TIGER SALAMANDERS THRIVING IN ALPINE LAKES WITH VID By Jaiansh Sharma Watch as a rare footage captured in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains shows Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) living in their natural ...

These rare salamanders, which can grow to over two feet long, lurk in the wild rivers of Appalachia. To spot one, you’ll need a snorkel, and some luck. Kevin Merrill leads snorkeling tours of the ...

Nearly two dozen salamanders were found around blackwater streams in northeast Florida during two years of surveys, researchers said. Photo from the Southwest Florida Water Management District ...

The eastern hellbender is a rare giant salamander, and was recently spotted in Eastern Kentucky. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Monte McGregor No, that’s not a rock — it’s a rare ...

“Despite much research, little is known about the history, life cycle, and basic habitat needs of the salamanders,” argued an attorney for city and county officials. Texas residents are challenging ...