Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio is home to many salamander species, including the red-backed salamander. It was recently found wriggling around at the Ohio ...

Natural closeup on a bright red Western redback salamander, Plethodon vehiculum sitting on the ground.(Getty Images/Wirestock) Fourth grade students from Powell Elementary School testified Wednesday ...

This video is no longer available. Students at Powell Elementary School in D.C. studied the red-backed salamander and thought that its red strips looked like the District’s flag. Now the D.C. Council ...

A friend was moving her big plant pots from her terrace into the garage for the winter. In the crack between flagstones under the plant, two different species of salamanders, a spotted and an eastern ...

It’s not a swamp dweller, but the red-backed salamander is now the District’s official amphibian — thanks to lobbying by students at Powell Elementary School. The designation was retroactively ...

This northern forest species is so common that its biomass would outweigh all the large mammals and birds in its habitat combined. Martha Foley... Feb 04, 2016 — This northern forest species is so ...

The most common and widespread salamander in Pennsylvania, the red-backed salamander, could lose much of its current range to climate change, according to a Penn State study. Salamanders are ...

A red-backed salamander that is a chocolate brown base color with white speckling and a distinctly bright red-orange stripe running the length of its back from its neck to the tip of its tail rest on ...

In a novel experiment, researchers devised a method to measure the metabolic rate of red-backed salamanders from different regions exposed to warmer temperatures — analyzing how much more energy the ...

D.C. doesn’t have statehood or a vote in the Senate. It doesn’t have clusters of skyscrapers or rivers that are (officially) swimmable. But soon, it might have an official amphibian, thanks to a ...

On March 30, along with friends John Howard and Kelly Capuzzi, I embarked on what many might consider an odd quest: finding as many amphibian species as possible in 24 hours. I couldn’t have had ...