Move over, Jurassic Park — nature just delivered a real-life blast from the past. A park ranger working in California’s ...

Giant salamanders belong to a class of amphibians with traits that have captured serious scientific attention. Like frogs, ...

Observations of giant salamanders’ behavior, size and habitat are rare opportunities to shape conservation strategies.

Spring is a season of new life, and with that comes animal behaviors that only happen at this time of year. One such example comes from salamanders, whose spring migration habits have them crossing ...

With rainy nights of early spring arriving, the annual amphibian migration is underway across Southern Vermont, and local ...

New York officials are warning residents to be careful when driving on warm, rainy nights this spring as hundreds of ...

The ability to sense environmental temperature, which helps animals move away from suboptimal locations and find those with ideal temperatures, involves various channels on sensory neurons that open ...

One unseasonably warm, rainy night in mid-March, thousands of salamanders emerged from their underground burrows across Central New York. They crawled over the cold, damp earth, pulled by instinct ...

"There is so little information about this life stage in this species." ...

MetroParks staff check out a salamander during the 2023 migration season. On a recent warm evening — more spring-like than February — dozens of small, dark salamanders peeked their heads out of their ...