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Aug. 2, 2021 Salamanders can navigate complex and unstructured environments thanks to their impressive body-limb coordination. Researchers have built a model that mimics a salamander's walk with the hope it ...
Aug. 17, 2022 Researchers find that Plethodontidae, a dominant family of salamanders, all of which are lungless as adults, actually develop lungs as embryos shedding light on the evolution of lung loss over ...
June 14, 2023 New research indicates the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) could be devastating to amphibian biodiversity if introduced to North ...
May 3, 2022 There are approximately 750 species of salamander known to science, a third of which reside in North America. Now, a team of researchers has discovered a new species of swamp-dwelling dusky ...
Dec. 11, 2020 Already possessing more salamander species than any other state in the country with 63, North Carolina has just added one more to make it 64. The aptly named Carolina Sandhills Salamander (Eurycea ...
Feb. 3, 2022 The 'Ebola virus of the amphibian world' is as unpleasant as it sounds, but a species of salamander that lives in Arizona found a way to live with the endemic disease. As the climate ...
Apr. 21, 2022 A new study of a southwestern Washington floodplain finds that most native species adapt well to the invaders by shifting their food sources and feeding ...
May 23, 2022 Researchers have documented in a vertical wind tunnel the amazing ability of one species of salamander -- which spends its entire life in the tops of redwoods -- to parachute, glide and maneuver in ...
Mar. 31, 2023 For tiny salamanders squirming skin-to-soil, big-picture weather patterns may seem as far away as outer space. But for decades, scientists have mostly relied on free-air temperature data at large ...
July 19, 2022 Three new species of black-bellied salamander have been discovered. The new salamanders, which are found in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States, stem from black-bellied ...