Tag: Salamanders

Alexander Pyron carefully extracted the salamander specimens from preservation jars he kept in a steel cabinet in his laboratory at George Washington University with a set of tweezers. He laid...

Mountain waterways may become refuges for salamanders after wildfires burn through parts of the Appalachian Mountains. “These riparian habitats are providing really important shelter areas for some of these species,...

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

Climate change could dramatically decrease the range of salamanders across the eastern United States and Canada, raising questions about how that might affect the ecosystems in which they play a...

Surveys across Ontario have shown that while frog chytrid is widespread, the fungal disease isn’t necessarily as deadly in the second largest province in Canada as it is in regions...

Not all salamanders live under rocks or in the water. California hosts a species that lives in the crowns of redwoods—the world’s tallest trees—and although it’s called the wandering salamander...

New techniques are giving biologists better tools to detect wildlife in some of the world’s most isolated locations. That includes underground water systems that host species that are poorly understood...

A rare salamander, endemic only to a few high elevation mountain tops in West Virginia, may lose all of its high-quality habitats by the end of the century due to...

Environmental DNA techniques can detect a deadly virus in amphibian ponds, giving wildlife managers critical information about how to best protect vulnerable amphibian species. Ranavirus is deadly to amphibians. “It’s...

A deadly chytrid disease has been found for the first time in two California salamander species. The fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis or Bd, was found to cause widespread disease in arboreal...