salamanders

A study of the animals using blue light reveals what humans are not able to see with the naked eye.

Populations of the two-foot-long amphibians are declining across North America. Scientists are struggling to find out why, before it’s too late.

The lay of the land shapes the diversity of groundwater-dependent salamanders.

Salamanders’ and lizards’ tail regeneration depends on the quality of their neural stem cells.

Researchers will be releasing captive-grown eastern hellbenders in southern Indiana to help raise their numbers.

The Chinese giant salamander is not one but five different species.

A decade after chytridiomycosis killed scores of amphibians in Panama, some species are recovering. New research indicates why.  

Using newly developed X-ray imaging technology, paleontologists revealed the skeleton, soft tissues, and remnants of an ingested frog within a 35-million-year-old petrified salamander.

Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) embryos are tinted green by the oxygen-producing algae (Oophila amblystomatis) that grow inside.

Joining Bd, a newly identified chytrid fungus can be lethal to European salamanders and newts.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

A fungus that erodes the skin has caused massive die-offs of fire salamanders in the Netherlands.

Yale University evolutionary biologist Steven Brady studies the evolutionary impacts of roads on the amphibians.