When most people think of spring they usually think of spring flowers appearing and birds flying back from their winter vacations. Sure, flowers and birds are sure signs that spring is on its way, but ...

Twelve years is a long time when it comes to the bureaucracy. And even after that long, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is just now getting around to deciding it should propose the West Virginia ...

Quick Take Blue-spotted salamanders in Ontario can actively move on ice at freezing temperatures. Of 21 salamanders ...

TODDVILLE - Salamanders are on the move in Iowa, heading back to the ponds and wetlands where they were born so they can spawn. These secretive black or dark gray amphibians with colored spots can ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— Following 13 years of advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the West Virginia spring salamander as ...

Each year, spring rain and melting snow create temporary (vernal) pools – ideal habitat for young amphibians provided they can grow up to adulthood before the pools dry up in summer. Since these pools ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife is warning of some traffic pattern changes ahead of Kentucky’s rainier nights. The department said in late winter and early ...

Every March, just after the first warm rain, hundreds of salamanders begin to appear from their underground, subterranean habitats underneath logs and leaf litter, in search of water, signifying the ...

I was up at the Great Works Regional Land Trust’s Tatnic Wood Preserve almost a month ago. We had had our first somewhat warm (40 degree) rainy nights, conditions that, in New England, bring on the ...

A favorite personal rite of spring is nocturnal salamander hunting. Come the first reasonably warm, rainy nights of late winter and early spring, the mole salamanders emerge from their earthy cloak.