A striking fire salamander rests on a mossy rock beside shallow water, displaying the brilliant yellow markings that contrast ...
The nature reserve just a couple blocks from campus may become the escape you need from your busy new life. Thorncrag Bird ...
Tucked away in the rolling hills of west-central Indiana, Shades State Park is one of the Midwest’s best-kept secrets. Towering sandstone cliffs, deep ravines, and Sugar Creek winding through the ...
“Moments like this are why I wanted to work in a zoo in the first place,” said Ellie Bland, the Chester Zoo’s ectotherms keeper Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have been in the woods of northern New Jersey in damp weather you might have seen little orange creatures creeping over the ...
If you have been in the woods of northern New Jersey in damp weather you might have seen little orange creatures creeping over the forest floor. Perhaps you already know that they are some kind of ...
In the harsh reality of winter, most animals migrate or hibernate to escape freezing temperatures. However, a remarkable group of amphibians has evolved extraordinary adaptations that allow them to ...
Fire salamanders are among the most-studied amphibians in Europe, yet until now, no one realized they are biofluorescent. Bernat Burriel-Carranza First described more than 250 years ago, fire ...
If the eastern red-backed salamander has an equivalent of Usain Bolt, Sophia Zaslow is determined to find it. Since her undergraduate years, the Binghamton University doctoral student in biological ...
The genus Taricha, or Pacific newts, includes four species of toxic cuties: the California newt, the rough-skinned newt, the red-bellied newt and the Sierra newt. These semiaquatic, nocturnal ...
The Upper Peninsula's blue-spotted salamanders are out and about this spring as they mate and lay eggs in wetlands, and a Northern Michigan University program is keeping watch over them. Each spring, ...