The little yellow-eyed salamander is one subspecies of a sprawling clan of highly variable ensatina salamanders that have evolved an extraordinary range of strategies for avoiding predators. The ...

The various Ensatina salamanders of the Pacific coast all descended from a common ancestral population. As the species spread southward from Oregon and Washington, subpopulations adapted to their ...

Wandering Salamanders Skydive From Some of the World’s Tallest Trees ... (Aneides flavipunctatus) and ensatina salamanders (Ensatina eschscholtzii), ...

The Ensatina salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzii), a lungless salamander common along the west coast of the US, is one of hundreds of species of salamanders endemic to North America threatened by ...

The Ensatina salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzii), a lungless salamander common along the west coast of the US, is one of hundreds of species of salamanders endemic to North America threatened by ...

The amphibian in this photograph is a yellow-eyed ensatina, a salamander species native to California. View Article Sources. Mancini, Mark, "What's the Difference Between a Newt and a Salamander?

An ensatina salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzii eschscholtzii). Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark Another 45 seconds into the film, and you can see the neural plate rising ...

It’s a warm and stormy night. We drive slowly up the valley, headlights on high beam. This is the season, with moist earth and warm air, when salamanders are on the move. A patch of red or o… ...

They were quickly rewarded with several Ensatina and California Slender Salamanders. "They're one of my favorites," Hernandez-Gomez said as a student scooped up the catch into a plastic bag and ...

These 'skydiving' salamanders survive leaps from the world’s tallest trees. ... The Monterey ensatina, which resides on the ground, parachuted in only three out of 45 trials.

Ensatina salamanders are an example of a ring species, an animal that spread and adapted around a geographic barrier-- in this case, the dry California Central Valley, only to come back together ...