Woodland salamanders have worn the same basic body plan for over 100 million years, leading scientists to dismiss them as ...

In the fairy-tale landscape of the Isle of Skye off the north-west coast of Scotland, the skull of one of the most ancient salamanders ever discovered to date was excavated from Jurassic limestones.

For her doctoral dissertation, Yale's Nathalie Alomar decided to study a small amphibian that appeared to have eluded the forces of evolution. She found that there is more to its evolution than meets ...

Scientists in Europe have created a robotic salamander that uses an amphibian type central nervous system to switch from swimming to walking as it crawls onto land out of water. The “Salamandra ...

Salamanders are an important group of living amphibians and model organisms for understanding locomotion, development, regeneration, feeding, and toxicity in tetrapods. However, their origin and early ...

Now we know why the spotted salamander crossed the road: To show some Yale scientists he could evolve. In a small research project that's yielded big results, Steven P. Brady and his colleagues have ...

Two opposing evolutionary forces explain the presence of the two different colors of spotted salamander egg masses at ponds in Pennsylvania, according to a new study. Understanding the processes that ...

A pair of studies from UT Austin offer insights into these keystone species. Eureycea salamanders (left, credit: Yaqing Li) and Ambystoma salamanders (right, credit: David Ledesma) feature in two ...

In the fairy-tale landscape of the Isle of Skye off the north-west coast of Scotland, the skull of one of the most ancient salamanders ever discovered to date was excavated from Jurassic limestones.