According to Animal Planet, salamanders were so-named because the creatures usually lived in wood piles used for cooking fires in the Middle Ages, and this led people to believe they lived in the fire ...

You’re hiking along a woodland trail and a movement on the path grabs your attention. A small, scaly creature scurries over a rock, then ascends an oak trunk and disappears into a hole. Later you rest ...

Salamanders and lizards can both regrow their tails, but not to equal perfection. While a regenerated salamander tail closely mimics the original, bone and all, a lizard’s replacement is filled with ...

“Ihave something I’d like to show you,” a caller informed me a few days ago. “I found something which I’ve never seen before in all my years of being outdoors.” “I believe it’s a lizard,” he continued ...

Salamanders are often mistaken for lizards, but the two groups are very different. Though they both have similar body shapes, lizards are reptiles (along with turtles, snakes, crocodiles, dinosaurs, ...

The next time you see a snake in your garden, let out a scream. A scream of joy, that is. Finding lizards, toads, frogs, salamanders and snakes is a sign that your garden is providing a healthy ...

Reporting from Palm Springs — As the sun rose over a wind-swept stretch of desert just east of Palm Springs, Cameron Barrows tramped over a series of dunes, identifying animal tracks in the sand -- ...

Living as we do here in the southern Blue Ridge province, we're situated smack dab in the middle of a region internationally renowned for its diverse salamander populations. Several of the species are ...

Arizona toad photo courtesy National Park Service. Photos are available for media use. “The Southwest is home to some of the nation’s most fascinating scaly and slimy creatures,” said Collette Adkins ...