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 ...

With spring bringing an influx of rainy days to Ohio, a slithery, slimy amphibian has emerged and is roaming around. Hellbenders are real, but we're not talking about those amphibians. Ohio is home to ...

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 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 ...

The District has a handful of official critters. The wood thrush is DC’s official bird, the American shad is our official fish, and big brown bat was awarded title of official mammal in 2020. Missing ...

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 ...

Michigan State University researchers contributed to a recent amphibian-focused study that shed light on the ecological importance of red-backed salamanders. Scientists knew that red-backed ...

In the global amphibian crisis, salamander numbers across the species have dropped too, with around 60% of salamander species threatened with extinction. Researchers and conservationists need to start ...

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 ...