Unlike frogs, salamanders keep their larval tail and slender bodies and move about by crawling rather than jumping. There are two species of large salamanders in New York, and both spend their entire ...

a female red-backed salamander lays her eggs under rotting logs or in a moist underground burrow where she coils herself ...

However, when salamanders with aquatic larvae mature, they lose their gills ... their gills are often bolder, such as bright red gills on a leucistic axolotl. Female axolotls can lay anywhere ...

Editor’s note: News 5 has corrected the name of the salamanders in this article. SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Fifty endangered larval reticulated flatwoods salamanders were released on ...

DESCRIPTION: A small salamander, approximately 3.5-4.5 inches in length. Individuals can occur in two color phases, one with a narrow red or yellow stripe on an otherwise brownish body ... which ...

FEEDING: For the first six weeks of life, juveniles eat small crustaceans, algae, and mosquito larvae. Adult salamanders prey on aquatic insects, invertebrates, and tadpoles of Pacific tree frogs, ...