A large bur oak stretches its branches across the Rollins Savanna landscape in Grayslake. Beneath the oak, a temporary pond is nearly thawed following winter’s cold. It is there that tiger salamanders ...

Environmentalists and federal wildlife regulators have settled a federal lawsuit on tiger salamander habitat, agreeing to roll back the clock to 2005 and return to the days when all 74,000 acres of ...

Sonoma County officials say the 74,000-acre expanse of the Santa Rosa Plain is far too large - perhaps four times too big - an area to receive federal protection as critical habitat for the endangered ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to add 4,495 acres in Sonoma County, Calif. to the 50,885 acres it had previously proposed to designate as critical habitat for the Sonoma ...

Federal officials granted protected status Monday to the California tiger salamander, giving environmentalists a major victory and provoking the ire of farmers and developers around the state. The U.S ...

Many animals — from marine species like fish to corals and land creatures like penguins and parrots — have a hidden skill: gleaming blue, green or red under certain kinds of light (SN: 11/17/17). But ...

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 ...