Two summers ago, field scientists dipped aquatic nets into a puddle on the highest peak of Doi Soi Malai mountain in ...

This past week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a new rule that would ban importing 36 genera (groups of species ...

With this in mind, let’s look at some of the most popular and interesting aquatic salamanders that make great pets. 1. Axolotls Are a Popular Pet Salamander Axolotls are increasingly popular ...

An animal rescue group said 61 dead cetaceans - an order of aquatic mammals that includes whales and dolphins - had been ...

Nicknames like old lasagna sides, snot otter, and the mud devil do not paint a very nice picture of the hellbender, but this ...

There’s yet a third group of salamanders, a happy medium between terrestrial and aquatic salamanders, which depend on the relative warmth of stream water to keep body temperatures just above freezing.

The eastern hellbender, a giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs, is proposed for federal protection.

during a survey of populations of the rare amphibian. Hellbenders, an aquatic animal that’s North America’s largest salamander, are endangered in Indiana and four other states and face habitat ...

Trond Larsen, head of the scientific team that led the expedition, says another 48 species that were found could also be new ...