When a Santa Barbara area family brought home a farmed Christmas tree to brighten their holidays, they never expected to find a surprise hidden among the branches: a tiny northwestern salamander, over ...

Slippery salamanders glide mysteriously through the canopies of the world’s tallest trees. Now, scientists say they understand how the small skydivers are able to maneuver seamlessly across California ...

Wandering salamanders can skydive in the branches of the tallest trees in the world. When a hungry bird comes near them, wandering salamanders can jump off the tallest trees in the world, California's ...

(via Deep Look) When a hungry bird comes near them, wandering salamanders can jump off the tallest trees in the world, California's coast redwoods, skydiving to a safe branch. Researchers decided to ...

The Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy and its partners released the hundreds of frosted flatwoods salamanders in Florida's panhandle Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Though they may look more like lizards, salamanders are aquatic, semi-aquatic, or terrestrial amphibians that share more in common with frogs than reptiles. Unlike lizards, they have no scales or ...

It’s flashlight dark, cool and damp, and a froggy chorus of spring peepers is singing amphibian love songs to call spotted salamanders out of the woods and into the ponds to mate. But the chorus goes ...