The Upper Peninsula's blue-spotted salamanders are out and about this spring as they mate and lay eggs in wetlands, and a Northern Michigan University program is keeping watch over them. Each spring, ...

Massachusetts residents, meet the critter who could become one of the state’s newest official animals. A group of students from Andover have made it their mission to bring awareness to the ...

MARQUETTE, MI – A scenic drive in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is closed to vehicles and bicycles nightly for the next month while blue-spotted salamanders migrate, WLUC reports. A portion of Peter ...

While tromping around chilly places in Ontario, Canada during the winter, the last creature you might expect to see is a salamander. Like other amphibians, salamanders’ body temperatures vary with ...

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: ...

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BLUE RIVER, Ind. — For the first time in 30 to 40 years, a young, endangered salamander has been found in an Indiana river igniting hope among conservationists that a century-long decline may be ...