When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking ...

In his new book, What Do You Really Stand For? (Harvard Business Review Press, 2026), Columbia Business School professor Paul Ingram draws on decades of research and frameworks to help you articulate ...

The Chinese giant salamander is not just massive—it is a highly specialized ambush predator built for stealth and sudden violence. Using sensitive skin to detect vibrations, it can locate prey in ...

Move over, Jurassic Park — nature just delivered a real-life blast from the past. A park ranger working in California’s remote forests stumbled upon an enormous California giant salamander while ...

Wild sightings of California giant salamanders are increasingly uncommon. So when a park ranger spotted one while monitoring streams in a remote forest in September 2025, the discovery thrilled ...

A park ranger patrolling remote streams in California recently stumbled onto something most people will never see in their lifetime: a California giant salamander, one of the largest amphibians on the ...

What does a hellbender look like? Discover what makes the Eastern Hellbender so unique - learn how to identify this fascinating salamander and understand its role in our waterways. Adults are capable ...

This analysis explores whether Americans consider 15 different behaviors morally acceptable or wrong. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center conducts high-quality research to inform the public, ...

An insidious disease has eliminated dozens of the world’s frog species. Scientists fear a similar plague could be coming for North America’s salamanders. A northern spring salamander lounges on a tree ...

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 ...

The frosted flatwoods salamander is a threatened species now found in only three locations in Georgia and Florida. Conservationists are surveying the salamander population at Fort Stewart, which ...