This year's Salamander Festival in Homewood arrives Saturday, tempered this time by the recent decimation of the celebrated amphibians during a mid-winter night migration down Shades Mountain. The ...

The axolotl, a tailed amphibian, is a marvel of evolution. It can regenerate injured body parts and is exceptionally long-lived. However, the axolotl is only found in Mexico, and its habitat is ...

In the rivers of China and Japan dwells a salamander so huge that it positively dwarfs its American cousin, the massive 2.5-foot "snot otter" (which, as it happens, is what they called me in high ...