Besides burning thousands of homes and displacing residents, the January fires, like earlier ones, upended the natural ...

Legend has it the Eastern hellbenders slithered here straight from hell and But in the age of humans, that evolutionary asset ...

Did you know that there are over 3,000 different species of centipedes, and scientists believe that there could be 5,000+ ...

It’s a chilling sight: once-bustling wetlands falling eerily silent, their frog and salamander choruses replaced by a ...

The Eastern red-backed salamander has been spotted in Ohio. Learn more about them, endangered status, and Ohio's rarest ...

Drought and amphibians are not a viable combination: These animals depend on water and humidity to survive; without that, they may dehydrate in a few hours and die. The Atlantic Forest is home to ...

After a long and frigid winter, the sound of spring peepers singing from beaver bogs is a welcome one for New Englanders. But ...

In a rare and a prestigious honour in the world of biological sciences, a newly discovered species of bronzeback snake has ...

An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

The Center for Biological Diversity on Thursday announced its intention to file a lawsuit over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Four critically-endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise babies made their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday ...

Creating and maintaining shady, moist habitats can help these animals survive heat waves. Experts raise concern after ...