Quick Take Blue-spotted salamanders in Ontario can actively move on ice at freezing temperatures. Of 21 salamanders ...

The population of California tiger salamanders that live in the Stanford hills will have new breeding ponds ready by the winter rains. The university's hope is to have fewer of the small amphibians ...

During the next couple of weeks, little pools of water in forested areas will be alive with the sounds of frogs. They’re gathering places for all kinds of critters who need these temporary shallow ...

COLLINS, N.Y. — Sometimes the smallest of habitats can support an abundance of thriving life. Vernal pools are a spring phenomenon essential to many species, including salamanders. The pools are ...

It’s a tale as old as the automobile: Boy salamander meets car tire while trying to meet girl salamander — and it’s an ecological calamity officials are trying to avoid. The Northampton County Parks ...

Winter is a difficult time for many animals. Food is scarcer and the temperature is colder. Starvation is a huge threat. Many mammals, amphibians and reptiles spend East Tennessee's colder months ...

Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) and members of the Blue-Spotted Salamander complex (Ambystoma laterale-jeffersonianum complex) often share terrestrial and wetland habitats, allowing ...

Blue spotted salamanders can supercool themselves so they can walk over ice and snow during their spring migrations.