Living as we do here in the southern Blue Ridge province, we're situated smack dab in the middle of a region internationally renowned for its diverse salamander populations. Several of the species are ...

“It is so chilly that it puts out fire by its contact, in the same way as ice does. It vomits from its mouth a milky slaver, one touch of which on any part of the human body causes all the hair to ...

With four legs for crawling, a slender and long body, and even a similar tail, salamanders and lizards can be hard to tell apart. Although they look alike, they belong to completely different classes.

Cut off a salamander's tail and, in a few weeks, a near-perfect replacement grows. Do the same to a lizard and a new tail will regrow, but it won't be the same as the original. By comparing tail ...

It's a longstanding mystery why salamanders can perfectly regenerate their tails whereas lizard tails grow back all wrong. By transplanting neural stem cells between species, researchers have ...

ALBANY, N.Y.— New York has added the Atlantic Coast leopard frog, eastern fence lizard and eastern tiger salamander to its protected threatened and endangered species lists. The state’s Department of ...

STRATFORD -- Children got an unconventional geography lesson Thursday from a lizard and reptile expert who brought a world of "living dragons" to the Lovell Room of the Stratford Library. Brian ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13, 2018 - Cut off a salamander's tail and, in a few weeks, a near-perfect replacement grows. Do the same to a lizard and a new tail will regrow, but it won't be the same as the ...