Salamanders eat things that bigger consumers can't eat and are themselves prey for other animals, meaning salamanders punch above their weight in an ecosystem's food web. "Salamanders serve a vital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Standing in a stream wearing snorkel gear and gloves, hellbender conservationists scooped the wriggly salamanders out of their ...

Why are giant salamanders so giant? It turns out that the world’s largest amphibians have one unique evolutionary feature in common. Lakes, streams and aquifers across North America are crawling with ...

This seems to me to be the summer of the salamanders. I suppose this is true for most water-loving things-fungi, slugs, and many of the vegetables in my garden that I’ve apparently always ...

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Fifty endangered larva reticulated flatwoods salamanders were released on private land in the Florida panhandle. News 5 has learned that this was the first-ever ...

Salamanders may seem like insignificant creatures that enjoy wandering around humid environments. Most people would attach little importance to these small and solitary amphibians. Yet, salamanders, ...

Staff Photo by Fred J. Field, Sat, Apr 19, 2003: This red back salamander was the only type of salamander found by a group of volunteers in Falmouth looking for wood frogs, spotted salamanders, and ...

"The very large biomass of red-backed salamanders tells us that they are likely 'small but mighty' in terms of their role in the ecological health of northeastern forests," said Evan Grant, lead ...