Councillors have sought to pay homage to an area’s amphibian population in it’s street name suggestion for a new development.

The red eft, the second stage of the Eastern spotted newt’s life cycle, is the most commonly seen salamander in the region ...

It has been a long, wet, raw month of May and my outdoor time has been curtailed by rotten weather on the weekends. So, it ...

Catching amphibians may just be a nostalgic childhood memory for most, but for Bateman it never lost its magic. He believes ...

We hope to serve as a model for other communities to protect and preserve their migrating amphibians.” A photo of a newt on top of a person’s hand was pasted underneath. Sally Gale ...

The newts play a role in keeping the lake clear and clean by eating plankton. Without them, algae growth would increase and threaten that clarity. “Amphibians act as canaries in the coal mine ...

The amphibians are Pacific newts and they're a type of salamander that, herpetologically speaking, is awfully cute. Snout to tail, they're about six inches long, a rich reddish brown on top with a ...

Those cuts will make it harder to protect the newt, which is currently threatened by invasive crayfish that prey on the little amphibian, the Center for Biological Diversity said. “Crater Lake ...

Newt patrol braves dark, wet nights to shepherd adult and juvenile newts and other amphibians and reptiles, across rural Chileno Valley Road in northern Marin County. Members hope eventually that ...

They also have "rough" skin. Researchers later confirmed that the newly discovered critters are a new species of "crocodile newt," an amphibian named for their resemblance to crocodiles.