WASHINGTON— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced final rules restricting the importation of salamanders for the pet ...

The giant salamanders lost more than three-fourths of their population before Hurricane Helene, which destroyed river habitat ...

The various Ensatina salamanders of the Pacific coast all descended from a common ancestral population. As the species spread southward from Oregon and Washington, subpopulations adapted to their ...

They thrive in clear, oxygen-rich water and their presence is a key indicator of a river’s health, according to the Center ...

Dr. Nobuyuki Kawai from Nagoya University in Japan has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the ...

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Read full article: Warming through Sunday, then turning much colder next week Colder weather for next week in San Antonio. You never forget your first time seeing a giant salamander, according to ...

Monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes and salamanders with snake skin, but not to images of salamanders without scale.

You never forget your first time seeing a giant salamander, according to Andy Hill. He was a teenager, standing thigh-high in the Watauga River outside Boone, North Carolina, casting a line on an ...

In each experiment, study author Nobuyuki Kawai presented the monkeys with a grid of nine black-and-white images of animals.

“Protecting these giant salamanders will give umbrella safeguards to thousands of other species that rely on clean rivers.” This isn’t the first time the Center for Biological Diversity has ...