A Glen Ellen volunteer dedicates his time to saving “soulful” amphibians from vehicular carnage. On a ribbon of road in West Marin, on wet winter nights when darkness comes early, a herd of determined ...

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources announced Monday the agency will start a new citizen project to track the ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to decide whether to protect the yellow-spotted woodland salamander under the Endangered Species Act. Only ...

Efforts to preserve and rebuild populations of the Crater Lake newt, a tiny, semi-aquatic sub-species of salamanders found ...

MONTPELIER — The duo heard them long before seeing them, a wild cacophony from the darkness beyond the road. The throaty ribbits were wood frogs. The flighty chirps were minuscule spring peepers, ...

Graduate student Regina Spranger walked just off the path on the UC Santa Cruz campus and flipped a log over to reveal a reddish-brown salamander. She picked up the squirmy amphibian, about as long as ...

In coastal northern California, a group of volunteers spends every night - from late fall through winter - as crossing guards. Not for children - they are escorting migrating salamanders across a ...

Basketball fans attending Friday's game must use alternate entrance as South Lakeshore Drive closes overnight for salamander ...

While trying to save large amphibians native to Japan, herpetologists in the country unexpectedly found a way to potentially save an even bigger species in China. While trying to save large amphibians ...

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

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 ...