According to NJDEP, “Due to habitat loss and pollution of larval ponds, the long-tailed salamander was listed as a State threatened species in New Jersey in 1979.” ...

Unlike frogs and toads, salamanders haven't gained the popularity and marketing image among the general public. Maybe it's because they're so secretive and unseen, living beneath the earth or ...

The spring salamander attains the greatest size and bulk of the streamside salamanders, reaching lengths of 7-1/2 inches not including the long tail. Like the other streamside salamanders, it breathes ...

WATSONVILLE — Several Santa Cruz long-toed salamander larvae were discovered this week in Elkhorn Slough for the first time in four years, giving the endangered species a fighting chance at ...

For a long time, it was assumed that ... a widespread European tailed amphibian species. ... a female salamander can deposit up to 50 living larvae in small streams and ponds.

Once they hatch, the tiny salamander larvae, about half an inch long with feathery gills, face a gantlet of potential predators, mainly aquatic invertebrates such as giant water bugs, backswimmers ...

The long-tailed salamander, Eurycea longicauda, is 4 to 6½ inches in length. In a mature adult, one half of the length is tail. Long-tailed salamanders can be found in wooded, hilly habitats.

Mating occurs at night and by morning, clusters of between 15 and 250 salamander eggs are attached to submerged twigs. Rick Marsi. Correspondent. April, at last, has begun to warm up.

Spotted salamanders secrete a toxic milky substance from the back and tail as a defense against predators. Life cycle /social structure: Eggs hatch in four to seven weeks, producing dull olive ...