Something lurking in a quiet Japanese mountain stream looks like a submerged log until it starts to move. What you discover ...

Smithsonian/Brian Gratwicke Dive into fun facts about this curious critter before encountering it on your next trip to the ...

The Salamander DC has checked out of the hotel at 1330 Maryland Ave. SW. Here's what else is changing, and what isn't.

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Fossils uncovered in Japan nearly two decades ago have revealed a giant salamander believed to have inhabited the region's lakes and marshes roughly 3.5 million years ago.

Despite being in the scientific spotlight for centuries, the fire salamander’s biofluorescence was overlooked until now.

The Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, weighing upwards of 140 pounds and growing to a length of more than 5.9 feet Petr Hamerník - Zoo Praha via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

Aneides vagrans, also called the wandering salamander, is an elusive critter. Its natural habitat is the canopy of California's redwood trees, the world's tallest trees, making it tough to observe.

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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 ...