Scientists have discovered that fire salamanders produce biofluorescent secretions that glow under specific wavelengths of ...
Fire salamanders give off a blue-green glow under ultraviolet light, which may help attract mates or serve as a warning to ...
When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking ...
"We either do this now or we watch them go extinct." ...
Despite being in the scientific spotlight for centuries, the fire salamander’s biofluorescence was overlooked until now.
Sex: Who needs it? Not unisexual mole salamanders, which reproduce primarily by cloning and sometimes snatch other species' sperm to kickstart their reproductive systems. These all-female cohorts have ...
An international research team has discovered that the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is biofluorescent. A study ...
Personnel from Chattanooga Zoo, U.S. Forest Service and Lee University traveled on May 4 and 5 into the Cherokee National ...
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 ...
When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...
Researchers have documented in a vertical wind tunnel the amazing ability of one species of salamander -- which spends its entire life in the tops of redwoods -- to parachute, glide and maneuver in ...