The Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, weighing upwards of 140 pounds and growing to a length of more than 5.9 feet Petr Hamerník - Zoo Praha via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

The 6-foot-long, 140-pound Chinese giant salamander is a being that defies belief—and seemingly the laws of the physical universe. It’s the largest amphibian on the planet, a gargantuan (though ...

Ambystoma is derived from either the Latin anabystoma, meaning “to cram into the mouth,” or from amblystoma , the Greek for “blunt mouth.” DESCRIPTION: Large for a modern amphibian, the male ...

One is semi-aquatic, the other mostly terrestrial. Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it would consider protecting the yellow-spotted woodland salamander under the Endangered Species Act. The agency now has 12 ...

An "imperiled" salamander on the brink of extinction has been bred in captivity for the first time ever. Atlanta-based conservation organization, the Amphibian Foundation, has been working to breed ...

To reproduce, of course. And a band of volunteers gathers at night to help it—and countless other amphibians—get to the other side A rare sighting of a northern spring salamander on migration night.

2001-08-30 04:00:00 PDT Stanford-- There's the Broadway Tunnel in San Francisco, the Waldo Tunnel in Marin County, the Caldecott Tunnel in the East Bay -- and now Stanford University is heralding the ...