At first glance, skinks and newts have many similarities. However, potential new owners should understand that these are completely different species. They don’t even belong to the same class of ...

"It's one of those things where all newts are salamanders, but all salamanders aren't newts," Nick Burgmeier, a research ...

Sometimes smooth, sometimes slippery, but always unique. Introducing one of the most interesting salamander relatives: newts. Newts are found in Europe, Asia, and North America. This lizard-frog ...

THE IRISH Wildlife Trust (IWT), the charitable conservation body founded in 1979, seeks your help in mapping the distribution of the Smooth Newt, the only species of newt we have in Ireland. An IWT ...

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Scientists have found an invasive species of alpine newt in three counties in Ireland. The amphibian has been found in five different locations in Co Offaly, Co Tipperary and Co Down. The alpine newt ...

Tetrodotoxin, the neurotoxin that makes a blue-ringed octopus deadly, also protects Taricha newts — but we don’t understand how they produce it, or what purposes it serves for them. A first step to ...

Boris Johnson today joins the fight to save the humble British newt after the aquatic amphibians threatened to derail his plan for a swimming pool. The former prime minister, writing exclusively for ...