"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 ...

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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 ...

An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a ...

California newts are endemic to California. They live through the coast and coast range mountains from Mendocino County to San Diego County. [Related: Poisonous animals probably took their sweet time ...

Sally Gale is a rancher in rural west Marin County, California. In addition to raising beef cattle, she leads a specialized brigade — one that’s helped save thousands of amphibians. The amphibians are ...

The struggling population of Mazama newts are finding a new home at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Oregon Zoo in Portland due to their own climate becoming increasingly challenging. The newts, ...

The red-spotted newts are on the move at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville. The National Park Service shared photos of the bright orange creatures crawling around the memorial, telling ...

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 ...