Armed with a yellow and a black crayon, a 9-year-old conservationist recently helped persuade an Alabama university to rethink building a sprawling sports facility on a critical spotted salamander ...

The California tiger salamander relies on seasonal ponds to breed. But for decades, the species has been under pressure from ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The explosive growth in Middle Tennessee has driven up demand not only for residential development but also commercial development. While big companies like Amazon and Oracle ...

The Eastern hellbender ( Cryptobranchus a. alleganiensis) isn’t nearly as fearsome as its name implies. They’re actually ...

A former strip mine may not seem to be the most likely place to find wildlife. But a new study from biologists at UVA Wise ...

The northern part of Tifft Nature Preserve on Buffalo’s Outer Harbor has a different look. Just last year it was overrun by acres of invasive buckthorn shrubs. Now, saplings of swamp white oaks, ...

With its wide mouth charmingly outlined in yellow, the California tiger salamander always looks like it's smiling. But this beautiful amphibian is a discriminating species that can only thrive in ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Nine-year-old Ruby Banta thought it was a pretty simple choice, even for adults. “This was the salamander’s habitat first,” she said after an afternoon soccer game. “It’s not a college ...

On October 18, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced 12-month findings on a petition to list three California-based salamander species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA): ...

We provide a framework for developing predictive species habitat models using preexisting vegetation, physical, and spatial data in association with animal sampling data. The resulting models are used ...