In the forests across the eastern United States there hides a large, nearly mythical creature most people have never seen. Known as the spotted salamander, these yellow polka-dotted amphibians can ...

The melting of the winter snow, combined with the limited rains that we’ve had this spring, combined to form pools on the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many may know that South Carolina has an official state bird (Carolina Wren) or even that the state has its own official state ...

Professor Peter Petokas holds a spotted salamander he captured in a vernal pool during a recent trek through the woods in Rice Township. PETE G. WILCOX/THE TIMES LEADER King’s College biology ...

So much of New Hampshire’s natural beauty is obvious; from the top of a mountain trail, from the shore of a lake or pond, even from your kitchen window. You barely have to open your eyes to see it.

When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) crawls near a cypress swamp at night in Carbondale, Illinois. Emanuele Biggi, Minden ...

Many may know that South Carolina has an official state bird (Carolina Wren) or even that the state has its own official state shell. But did you know that the Palmetto State also has a state ...