Their “robust” bodies have “a relatively wide head” and “moderately long” limbs. Their tails are “short ... Hoskins found female geckos “with two well-developed eggs visible” in their bellies, the ...

You might know axolotls from video games like “Minecraft” and “Pokemon,” but the aquatic salamanders with unique, adorable and popular with people who keep amphians as pets.

These structures were long thought to aid in oxygenation, but no scientific evidence supported that claim. The study suggests that controlling blood flow in the toes allows salamanders to adjust ...

A group of determined young people in Pennsylvania, the original “Hellbender Defenders,” say the recognition is long overdue. “The hellbender demonstrates the importance of clean water and healthy ...

The giant salamanders spend most of their lives nearly invisible under rocks in streams, which has made it difficult to monitor their populations.

Regulating blood flow, the authors said, allows the long-legged wandering salamanders to adjust pressure asymmetrically. Blood rushing in before the “toe off” helps them to detach. And, by inflating ...

It’s under there because the moisture helps its membrane-like skin absorb oxygen; the species is part of a whole family of lungless salamanders. Eggs, laid on land in group ... and events to your ...

Why eggs are nearly $9 a dozen in California — and when prices could drop Spike in bird flu cases may still help lift U.S. egg prices above 2023’s record high, analyst says Published: Jan. 8 ...

The amphibians are Pacific newts and they're a type of salamander that, herpetologically speaking, is awfully cute. Snout to tail, they're about six inches long ... lay their eggs," says brigadier ...

Yet these behemoths’ most puzzling feature is a whip-like tail that can measure as long as the rest of the fish’s body. Why mantas and related rays have such long tails has long been a mystery.