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 ...

If you see a little orange guy crawling in the woods in West Virginia, it’s probably an eastern newt, the Mountain State's ...

Toxic, cannibalistic, and indiscriminately predatory: four species of tiny Taricha, or Pacific newt, carry a deadly poison around the misty forest floors from Alaska to Southern California. Don’t let ...

Eastern newt populations in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada are at greatest risk of infection with a new skin-eating fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), according ...

Juneau has four resident amphibians that breed in fresh water: wood frogs and western (boreal) toads, which have geographic ranges extending way up north, Columbia spotted frogs, which range to about ...