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

As a private university expands its footprint and threatens the amphibian’s habitat, residents are voicing their opposition ...

In about six weeks, the eggs hatch and the salamanders exist as free-living larvae, feeding on tiny pond animals. Larvae usually metamorphose into adults by the end of summer or before the pond dries ...

Traffic on a busy roadway in Canada has halted for several weeks — not due to construction or road repairs, but to protect a tiny, slithery creature: the Jefferson salamander. The city of ...

She smiles as she holds out the jelly-like blob that can contain between 10 and 100 eggs. Through the translucent membranes, you can see the tiny salamanders beginning to take shape – amphibians ...

After the eggs are fertilized internally, a female can lay up to 1,300, which she deposits individually or in small batches. Adults move back to their terrestrial burrows after breeding. LIFE CYCLE: ...

Tiny jumping wood frogs blended in with the ... making them ideal nurseries for tadpoles and salamander larvae. As we walked, Heady pointed out a wide range of other spring-breeding amphibians ...

This is the time of year when our local amphibians will be migrating back to their natal pools to mate and lay eggs.

salamanders coming out of their hiding spots to seek out small pools where they will lay their eggs. Connecting back to a column I wrote a couple of weeks ago about vernalization — the idea of ...

“is that you can see many individuals and species in a short period and in a small area, and some species may not be seen the ...

In Vermont, Kelly said we’re likely to see wood frogs, common palm sized brown frogs, and spring peepers, tiny inch-long ... in ponds and vernal pools. Salamander larvae feed on mosquito larvae ...

DESCRIPTION: Both species are moderately sized salamanders that are black to chocolate ... Females lay their eggs at or near the edge of the water in small depressions, beneath leaf litter, logs or ...