Many juvenile salamanders look like axolotls because they live underwater and have the axolotl’s signature gills. However, when salamanders with aquatic larvae mature, they lose their gills and ...

Meet the axolotl, a rare and fascinating salamander that breaks all the rules of nature ... This phenomenon, known as neoteny ...

DESCRIPTION: Juvenile Jollyville Plateau salamanders are less than 1.5 inches long; adults are typically 1.5 to two inches. Salamanders occurring in spring habitat have large, well-developed eyes; ...

Axolotls are special salamanders because they can regenerate entire limbs! Axolotls are special salamanders. Not only to they stay in their juvenile form their whole lives, they can regenerate ...

The internet’s favorite salamander, only found in the wild in Mexico’s Lake Xochimilco, is critically endangered. Here’s how people are fighting to save them.

Juvenile salamanders dispersing from ponds have been trapped more than 1,200 feet from their natal ponds. BREEDING: Following early-winter rains, California tiger salamanders nocturnally emerge from ...

Although research has linked inbreeding with elevated rates of deformity in a wide variety of animals, a new study finds it plays no part in the high incidence of malformation among salamanders.

One to two months later, salamander larvae will hatch. In a process called metamorphosis, the larvae will change into juvenile salamanders, and then into adults. ...

Transcript. Alex Smith may be bald, but he says his hair stands on end when he thinks about the moment he first spotted a pitcher plant that had devoured a juvenile salamander in an Ontario park.

Salamanders typically have longer and more rounded tails with well-developed toes for digging in soil. A newt's skin is rough and looks like it's covered in warts, while a salamander's is wet ...