The Ijams Nature Center is excited about eggs they spotted in a pond this week. What they spotted were spotted salamander eggs. The Ijams team posted on social media to tell the public about the ...

An even larger species is the hellbender, a big fleshy salamander of river bottoms. In New York, only a few drainages along the southern border are home to hellbenders. Red-spotted newts begin life as ...

Ohio is home to 25 species of salamander. An abundance of the amphibians — or lack thereof — can indicate the health of a ...

Spotted salamanders migrate a few hundred feet ... She eventually deposits large, gelatinous egg masses containing as many as 250 eggs (often fertilized by multiple fathers).

The black oaks in my yard are finally letting go of their brown, crackly leaves, arousing my curiosity. According to Seneca ...

Spotted salamanders lay their eggs and search for suitable log homes nearby. Camouflaged wood frogs peep from between fresh blades of grass. And perhaps, most magical of all, wee neon-orange ...