Red-backed salamanders find a mixture of fruit flies, crickets, bean beetles, isopods, springtails, and black caterpillars. Female red-backed salamander lay their eggs in dark and damp places between ...

However, the red-backed salamander has surmounted all possible obstacles to become D.C.’s official amphibian. Students from Powell Bilingual Elementary School testified last September before the ...

Powell Bilingual Elementary School students after their reenactment of the passage of D.C. Law 25-251, the bill that would designate the red-backed salamander as D.C.'s official amphibian.( ...

It’s under there because the moisture helps its membrane-like skin absorb oxygen; the species is part of a whole family of lungless salamanders. Eggs, laid on land in group nests, begin to hatch in ...

Eggs are getting a whole lot of attention these days. And, unfortunately, it's not great news. In early January, Food & Wine reported on the ongoing H5N1 crisis, otherwise known as bird flu ...

At Market Basket locations in some parts of Massachusetts, customers are being asked to limit their egg purchases to two cartons per family. Another shopper on the hunt for eggs, this one in Las ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander to its list of endangered species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal to do so was ...

How salamanders manage to move around on uneven, vertical tree surfaces with such dexterity has long baffled scientists. A new discovery suggests they use a trick out of a horror movie ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Wandering salamanders utilize a unique mechanism involving blood-powered toes to enhance their arboreal locomotion. They can rapidly fill, trap, and drain blood ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander to its list of endangered species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal to do so was ...