Salamanders in North Carolina: What Experts Are Saying Now - Away State Journal
Salamanders are numerous in North America. Here are 32 types of salamanders you may encounter with pictures for identification.
Fox Carolina: ‘Ancient and magnificent’: Group files federal lawsuit to protect hellbender salamanders
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - In a federal lawsuit filed this week, the Center for Biological Diversity is pushing the government to strengthen protections for a rare native of western North ...
National Geographic news: How a deadly fungus could decimate North America’s salamanders
An insidious disease has eliminated dozens of the world’s frog species. Scientists fear a similar plague could be coming for North America’s salamanders. A northern spring salamander lounges on a tree ...
The New York Times: Searching for Hellbenders, North America’s Largest Salamanders, in Appalachia
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard -like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.
Salamanders and newts are nocturnal and secretive animals with long slender bodies, long tails and in most cases, two pairs of legs. Their life cycles can be totally aquatic, totally terrestrial, and in between--spending time both on land and in water.
Salamanders are lizard-like amphibians with slender bodies covered by smooth, moist skin, blunt snouts, short limbs, and a tail in both adult and larval stages. They belong to the order Urodela, under the group Caudata.
