We search for southern dusky salamanders in the Bradwell Bay Wilderness. Deep in the Apalachicola National Forest, the Bradwell Bay Wilderness is the best remaining population of an animal in decline- ...

There are approximately 750 species of salamander known to science, a third of which reside in North America. Now, a team of researchers has discovered a new species of swamp-dwelling dusky salamander ...

A new species of swamp-dwelling salamander has been discovered in the south Alabama region called “America’s Amazon,” adding another name to the impressive list of amphibian species living there.

Among the biggest of its kind, this fossil find is helping scientists trace how today’s diverse species are connected. A giant salamander — one the biggest ever known to prowl the forests of ancient ...

In 1945, naturalist Carl Gans noted a colony of Northern Dusky salamanders hunkered down in Upper Manhattan. Since then, scientists have assumed the stocky amphibian with the big jaws was gone. But in ...

In an attempt to protect one of just two populations of dusky salamanders in the state the Illinois Audubon Society has purchased a 40-acre tract, known as the Hartman Spring Natural Area Inventory ...

A massive, extinct salamander with jaws like a vice once roamed ancient Tennessee and its fossil has just rewritten what we thought we knew about Appalachian amphibians. Named Dynamognathus robertsoni ...

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

There are approximately 750 species of salamander known to science, a third of which reside in North America. Now, a team of researchers led by R. Alexander Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Associate ...