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 public about the ...

Ohio is home to 25 species of salamander. An abundance of the amphibians — or lack thereof — can indicate the health of a ...

These habitats, just dimples in the landscape, are known as vernal pools, or as a key researcher from the Massachusetts-based ...

Spotted salamanders migrate a few hundred feet ... She eventually deposits large, gelatinous egg masses containing as many as 250 eggs (often fertilized by multiple fathers).

Researchers and community scientists have teamed up to map and protect these ephemeral wetlands that serve as hidden ...

New research demonstrates that green algae not only grow inside of a spotted salamander egg, but enter cells within its body. Thus far, this is the only example of endosymbiosis in a vertebrate. (See ...

Once the amphibians cross the road, the area around Shelburne Pond will become one big singles event, with animals searching ...

Newt eggs are particularly sensitive to increased acidity and are absent from ponds affected by acid rain. The tiger, spotted, Jefferson's, blue-spotted, and marbled salamanders are the New York ...