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A baird's tapir goes for dip. Image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation climbs in Central America’s largest biosphere reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Dec 2025

Scientists & nuns unite to save Mexico’s rare achoque salamanders

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2025
Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)

Radio tags help reveal the secret lives of tiger salamanders

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 May 2025
A purple axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). Image by Raphael Brasileiro via Pexels.

Hope for endangered axolotls as captive-bred group survives in wild

Shanna Hanbury 5 May 2025

How an international effort is keeping North America free of a deadly amphibian disease

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jul 2024
A fire salamander, vulnerable on the IUCN list.

Know your salamander: To conserve amphibians, study their intelligence (commentary)

Deyatima Ghosh 13 Jun 2024

Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls

Aminetth Sánchez 31 May 2024

Frogs in the pot: Two in five amphibian species at risk amid climate crisis

Liz Kimbrough 5 Oct 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2020 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2020

Hellbenders, super-spreaders, and other salamanders face uncertain futures

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2020

Can policy prevent a North American salamander pandemic?

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2020

International task force unites North America to protect salamander diversity

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2020

Will U.S. scientists find a silent salamander killer in time?

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2020

Why are salamanders so diverse in North America?

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2020

Audio: North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Is the U.S. ready?

Mongabay.com 20 May 2020

Newly described Chinese giant salamander may be world’s largest amphibian

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2019

Super variable California salamander is ‘an evolutionist’s dream’

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2019

Tiny subterranean Texas salamanders could be extinct in 100 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Mar 2019

Habitat loss, pigs, disease: U.S. salamanders face a ‘tough situation’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jan 2019

As a pandemic looms, researchers rush to test salamander vulnerability

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Dec 2018

Disappearing salamanders: New research aims to solve a decades-old mystery

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Dec 2018

Photos: Top 10 new species of 2018

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2018

‘Snot otters’ threatened by disease and stress

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2018

Essential ubiquity: How one tiny salamander species has a huge impact

Emily Clark 21 Dec 2018

‘Death by a thousand holes’: Scientists race to avert a salamander crisis

Benji Jones 19 Dec 2018

Super-spreaders: How the curious life of a newt could ignite a pandemic

Rachel Fritts 13 Dec 2018

New species of giant salamander described after decades of mystery

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2018

Will trade bans stop a deadly salamander plague from invading the US?

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2018

Racing to save the world’s amazing frogs with Jonathan Kolby

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2018

On the hunt for a silent salamander-killer

Benji Jones 13 Sep 2018

Salamanders have ‘tricks up their sleeves’ for weathering climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Jul 2018

Chinese giant salamander is at least five species — all nearly extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 24 May 2018

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