Virtually all our “red-spotted” newts go through an eft stage ... One experiment found that eggs raised in the same body of water as dragonfly nymphs hatched into larvae with statistically larger ...

In New York, only a few drainages along the southern border are home to hellbenders. Red-spotted newts begin life as a small aquatic larva, residing in ponds and beaver flows. By late summer, they ...

All eastern newts begin life as jelly-coated eggs scattered in stagnant or sluggish bodies of water. Larval newts emerge in spring as tiny, drab olive tadpoles with feathery external gills and an ...