The Eastern tiger salamander had lived in the mid-Atlantic region since the ice ages: Its presence can be traced back 14,000 years along Virginia’s coastal plains, and 400,000 years in the Blue ...

Mole Salamanders and Vernal Pools. The tiger, spotted, Jefferson's, blue-spotted, and marbled salamanders are the New York representatives of a family known as the mole salamanders, so-called because ...

It is there that tiger salamanders and blue-spotted salamanders — the two most common species in Lake County — will emerge from their underground burrows, go to court and lay their eggs.

Weighing against the tiger salamander is the chief North County industry, agriculture, which can disturb burrows, ground cover, and pooling water. Also, native predators abound — from great blue ...

Today in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers for the first time show that amphibians glow if you throw blue light on them. The tiger salamander suddenly pops with brilliant green spots.

To find out, the St. Cloud team grabbed a blue-light flashlight and cast it on salamanders they were already studying. ... Lamb plans to test these ideas out in the tiger salamander, ...

Biofluorescence may help salamanders and frogs find one another in low light: Their eyes contain cells that are especially sensitive to green or blue light (SN: 4/3/17).

This Western tiger salamander was collected and measured before being released during last year’s “Migration Night.” UW’s Biodiversity Institute will host the Laramie Salamander Migration Initiative, ...