Salamanders are the only terrestrial vertebrates that possess the remarkable ability to regenerate limbs or tails. The vast ...

Northern red salamanders do not have lungs. They belong to a family of lungless salamanders, taking in oxygen through their skin and the lining of their mouths. (Tami Gingrich photo) A few years ...

They have external skin-covered gills to breathe underwater, and many species have a ‘cement’ gland that ... Toad tadpoles: Usually plain dark brown or black, but in contrast to frog tadpoles, they ...

He reaches his hand into the shallow end of the mud up picking up a slimy, long semi-black salamander that wiggled its legs slowly in the early afternoon light. His grandfather, John Young ...

With 58 species of salamanders — more than one tenth of all the world’s salamander species — Georgia is a global “hot spot” for the amphibians. For all of their abundance, however ...