Many may know that South Carolina has an official state bird (Carolina Wren) or even that the state has its own official state shell. But did you know that the Palmetto State also has a state ...

Some salamanders begin their spring migration in the deep cold. New field research shows how they stay active without ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Ellen McLaughlin said she wasn’t speaking for herself. “I speak for the salamanders,” she told those gathered at a community meeting in late March. McLaughlin, a retired Samford ...

Armed with a yellow and a black crayon, a 9-year-old conservationist recently helped persuade an Alabama university to rethink building a sprawling sports facility on a critical spotted salamander ...

In ancient times, people thought moist-skinned salamanders could survive in fire. That's not true, of course, but some salamanders have a surprising ability to deal with another temperature extreme: ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Nine-year-old Ruby Banta thought it was a pretty simple choice, even for adults. “This was the salamander’s habitat first,” she said after an afternoon soccer game. “It’s not a college ...

A lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Arizona, seeks to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether or not to protect a rare salamander found in scattered locations ...