As a private university expands its footprint and threatens the amphibian’s habitat, residents are voicing their opposition ...

As a private university expands its footprint and threatens the amphibian’s habitat, residents are voicing their opposition ...

This is the time of year when our local amphibians will be migrating back to their natal pools to mate and lay eggs.

The spotted salamander has long been a unique part of Homewood’s history ... It’s for the next generation of salamanders, too. UAB biologist Megan Gibbons holds a salamander egg mass. (Lee ...

Spotted salamanders and wood frogs have what is ... each egg in the mass has its own jelly coat. This makes the mass of eggs look, to me, like a bunch of grapes bobbing at the surface of the ...

Soon, the gelatinous egg mass swells with water, forming fist size clusters, anchored to submerged stems and over the next couple of weeks the embryos develop, eventually hatching into tadpoles.

The spotted salamander has long been a unique part of ... It doesn't take Gibbons long to find an egg mass. She smiles as she holds out the jelly-like blob that can contain between 10 and 100 ...

Another sure sign of spring happens on the first warm, rainy night, when the mass migration of spotted salamanders occurs. They leave their burrows to lay their eggs in the ephemeral vernal pools that ...

Soon, the gelatinous egg mass swells with water, forming fist size clusters, anchored to submerged stems and over the next couple of weeks the embryos develop, eventually hatching into tadpoles.