Natural closeup on a bright red Western redback salamander, Plethodon vehiculum sitting on the ground.(Getty Images/Wirestock) Fourth grade students from Powell Elementary School testified Wednesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio is home to many salamander species, including the red-backed salamander. It was recently found wriggling around at the Ohio ...

If the eastern red-backed salamander has an equivalent of Usain Bolt, Sophia Zaslow is determined to find it. Since her undergraduate years, the Binghamton University doctoral student in biological ...

It’s not a swamp dweller, but the red-backed salamander is now the District’s official amphibian — thanks to lobbying by students at Powell Elementary School. The designation was retroactively ...

Powell Bilingual Elementary School students after their reenactment of the passage of D.C. Law 25-251, the bill that would designate the red-backed salamander as D.C.'s official amphibian.(WTOP/Kate ...

D.C. doesn’t have statehood or a vote in the Senate. It doesn’t have clusters of skyscrapers or rivers that are (officially) swimmable. But soon, it might have an official amphibian, thanks to a ...

It is one thing to receive the endorsement of fervent grade-school lobbyists but another to survive the intricate District of Columbia legislative process. However, the red-backed salamander has ...

Michigan State University researchers contributed to a recent amphibian-focused study that shed light on the ecological importance of red-backed salamanders. Scientists knew that red-backed ...

A red-backed salamander that is a chocolate brown base color with white speckling and a distinctly bright red-orange stripe running the length of its back from its neck to the tip of its tail rest on ...

Students and faculty at Mary Baldwin University are turning the Shenandoah Valley into a living classroom through hands-on ...

Washingtonian first met nine-year-old Max Girshick in June, when he talked about a movement among his Powell Elementary School classmates to designate the eastern red-backed salamander as DC’s ...