An insidious disease has eliminated dozens of the world’s frog species. Scientists fear a similar plague could be coming for ...

For just one or two nights each spring, spotted salamanders emerge from underground and go in search of vernal mating pools.

One unseasonably warm, rainy night in mid-March, thousands of salamanders emerged from their underground burrows across Central New York. They crawled over the cold, damp earth, pulled by instinct ...

Salamander enthusiasts should be careful when seeking out these animals in the wild, since some of them are poisonous. There are four species of newt that are poisonous and can seriously harm a person ...

Mole salamanders migrate once a year during the transition from winter to spring. With the temperatures warming and the rain rolling in, here's what you need to know to go look for them.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Hellbenders are North America’s largest salamanders, living in rivers and growing to an incredible length of over two feet. Eastern newts are tiny ...

A recent visit to Salleyland, South Carolina, was as pleasant as could be expected on a muggy midsummer day while trudging through swamp mud and wiping spiderwebs from our faces. Even when I ...

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 ...