You’re probably familiar with the basic amphibian life plan: start as a wriggly water-breathing tadpole, transform into an ...

Over a few months the young ‘efts’, as they are called, will lose their gills in readiness for terrestrial life and by late summer the juvenile newts will leave the water and live on land ...

A Hong Kong Newt once resided in a narrow irrigation channel, believing it would be confined there forever. However, an unexpected flood swept it away, carrying it through a dark passage until it ...