Move over, Jurassic Park — nature just delivered a real-life blast from the past. A park ranger working in California’s ...

Observations of giant salamanders' behavior, size and habitat are rare opportunities to shape conservation strategies.

Michoacán released 1,000 achoque salamanders in Lake Pátzcuaro this week, offering hope for the critically endangered axolotl ...

You never know what the future holds. You can be used to a life on the cultural margins, living in small bodies of water, and not being acknowledged except by niche biologists. Beyond that, your ...

The finding offers new insights into the early development of this species ...

Biologist Michael Reichmuth captured the California giant salamander in larval form in the wild for the first time in picture ...

Though they may look more like lizards, salamanders are aquatic, semi-aquatic, or terrestrial amphibians that share more in common with frogs than reptiles. Unlike lizards, they have no scales or ...

In ancient times, people had some wild beliefs about salamanders. They thought these cool-skinned amphibians could survive in fire. That is not true, of course. But some salamanders do have a ...

A team of conservationists hopped in a Tennessee river to release 17 endangered hellbenders back into the wild. Screengrab from the Nashville Zoo's video Conservationists scooped 17 wriggling ...

RESTRICTIONS ARE IN PLACE UNTIL FRIDAY. IT’S TEMPTING TO PICK OUT AN EXOTIC CREATURE FROM A PET STORE. IT SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY HARMLESS PURCHASE, RIGHT? YEAH, BUT THOSE PETS CAN OFTEN CARRY DISEASES ...