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 ...

These Ancient Amphibians Are Slipping Away Faster Than Scientists Can Understand For millions of years, giant salamanders have lurked in rivers and streams, quietly thriving as one of the planet’s ...

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

The species has existed for millions of years, but the salamanders are threatened by poor water quality and populations have ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

A researcher has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an evolutionary adaptation of primates to ...