Close-up of a vibrant blue spotted salamander on a branch in natural habitat ... Full body closeup on an adult North american Eastern red backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus on green moss. Image via ...

“When people see a spotted salamander, it really blows their mind ... Red Efts (the juvenile form of the Eastern Newt) are a common crosser of roads. (Sam Evans-Brown/NHPR) One more scientific ...

Most recently, that includes one elusive giant salamander: the Eastern hellbender ... In his entire 16-year career, Smith’s spotted a hellbender in the wild on just two occasions, in part ...

Fairy shrimp, fingernail clams and blue-spotted salamanders are among the fantastical inhabitants of these “coral reefs” of Eastern forests. Named for the Latin word for spring, vernal pools ...

Other amphibians known to use Long Island vernal pools include cousins to the Spotted Salamander: Marbled, Blue-spotted and Eastern Tiger Salamanders (a New York State endangered species), Red-spotted ...

Some two weeks after Adolf Hitler’s unprovoked attack on Poland, Joseph Stalin followed suit, with Soviet forces crossing Poland’s eastern ... s ode to the spotted salamander, “The most ...

By the time I saw my first Smokies salamander, I was weirdly glad that it wasn’t the Eastern hellbender (North America’s ... under a rock near a shallow pond where Fitzpatrick saw two spotted ...

The spotted salamander is Ohio's state amphibian ... toads — and if you're lucky — the endangered Eastern Hellbender. It's the state's largest amphibian, reaching up to 27 inches in length.

What they spotted were spotted salamander eggs ... According to Ijams, the amphibian is native to the eastern United States and southern Canadian woodlands. The creature spends most of the ...

red efts (the juvenile form of eastern newts), and members of the mole salamander (Ambystoma) genus: the aptly named spotted salamander, Jefferson salamander, and the blue-spotted salamander. To ...