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 ...

For her doctoral dissertation, Yale's Nathalie Alomar decided to study a small amphibian that appeared to have eluded the ...

If the eastern red-backed salamander has an equivalent of Usain Bolt, Sophia Zaslow is determined to find it. Since her undergraduate years, the Binghamton University doctoral student in biological ...

Many salamanders, like the red-backed salamander, are tiny and spend the majority of their time underground, so it's easy for most people to overlook them. In fact, Grant commonly refers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is one thing to receive the endorsement of fervent grade-school lobbyists but another to survive the intricate District of Columbia legislative process. However, the red-backed salamander has ...

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 ...