The various Ensatina salamanders of the Pacific coast all descended from a common ancestral population. As the species spread southward from Oregon and Washington, subpopulations adapted to their ...

Acid rain in Shenandoah National Park also damages forest canopy cover, while climate change threatens to shrink the salamander's habitat as high-elevation habitat types are encroached upon by ...

And in fact, the salamander is likely two species, or at least two distinct populations — a “plateau” population and a “peripheral” population — divided by a major highway. Individually, each unique ...

Michigan is home to ten different species of salamander and the variety within those ten species is quite fascinating. Salamanders are a type of amphibian, along with frogs and toads. The word ...