Wandering salamanders control blood flow in their toes to improve grip and detachment, a finding that may inspire new ...

A new study suggests that a tree-dwelling salamander may be able to control its grip on trees' bark by pumping blood in and out of the tips of its toes. This rather crafty strategy could one day be ...

Still frame image showing the hindfoot of a live Wandering Salamander (Aneides vagrans) from a ventral perspective just before the salamander takes a step forward. This image shows the large ...

"Understanding salamander toes could lead to similar breakthroughs in attachment technologies." Salamanders of the Aneides genus have long puzzled scientists with their square-shaped toe tips and ...

By Liz Kimbrough Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four new mammals and a bizarre “blob-headed” fish that was ...

A monsoon surge forecast to move through Indonesia and into northern Australian waters late this week may see five tropical lows form off the WA, Northern Territory and Qld coastlines. Find out ...

After a decline of over 90 per cent in little brown bats and northern long-eared bats in Nova Scotia, researchers are hopeful the bat population is beginning to stabilize. A disease called white ...

In coastal northern California ... who's helped save thousands of Pacific newts - a type of salamander that, herpetologically speaking, is awfully cute. Snout to tail, they're about 6 to 8" long. They ...

Hurricane Ophelia: Confusion as map shows north unaffected by stormOpens in new window The Met Office has warned Storm Éowyn could bring gusts in excess of 80mph on exposed on coasts in Northern ...

The giant salamander species in Appalachia was already in trouble when Hurricane Helene devastated swaths of its habitat in North Carolina.

The region is home to rare and vulnerable flora and fauna, including the Cascades frog, the northern spotted owl, the long-toed salamander, and the sugarstick—a parasitic plant associated with the ...