"It's one of those things where all newts are salamanders, but all salamanders aren't newts," Nick Burgmeier, a research ...

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 ...

Ambystoma is derived from either the Latin anabystoma, meaning “to cram into the mouth,” or from amblystoma , the Greek for “blunt mouth.” DESCRIPTION: Large for a modern amphibian, the male ...

An "imperiled" salamander on the brink of extinction has been bred in captivity for the first time ever. Atlanta-based conservation organization, the Amphibian Foundation, has been working to breed ...

Within a typical forest in the eastern United States, salamanders are everywhere. On an acre of forest, thousands of salamanders may be foraging among the leaf litter, under logs, and in creeks ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site have discovered the remains of a giant salamander that once called prehistoric Appalachia home. According to a news release from East ...

John Cossel, Biology Department chairman at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, holds a rarely seen Idaho Giant Salamander. The salamanders are mostly found in north-central Idaho under rocks and ...

A rare creature estimated to be at least 200 years old has been found in a Chinese cave, according to reports from the People's Daily online. The captured giant salamander is 4.5 feet long and weighs ...

The Chinese giant salamander, the largest amphibian in the world, is critically endangered – and now it’s clear that there are at least three distinct species of this animal, each of which will need ...

A massive, extinct salamander with jaws like a vice once roamed ancient Tennessee and its fossil has just rewritten what we thought we knew about Appalachian amphibians. Named Dynamognathus robertsoni ...

One is semi-aquatic, the other mostly terrestrial. Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: ...