Lungs are essential to many vertebrates including humans. However, four living amphibian clades have independently eliminated pulmonary respiration and lack lungs, breathing primarily through their ...

A type of lungless salamander thought to be confined to the Americas and parts of Italy and Sardinia has been found in Asia. British magazine Nature says the startling discovery has been likened to ...

A new species of salamander has been discovered under rocks in South Korea but scientists said on Wednesday they don't know how it got there. The lungless salamander, which breathes through moist skin ...

In a substrate thermal gradient in the laboratory, seven species of neotropical plethodontid salamanders exhibited distinct thermal preferences. The mean substrate temperature selected in the gradient ...

Georgia is a hotspot for salamanders; about 10 percent of the 560 species found worldwide inhabit the southern state. And now scientists can add one more to the Georgian list: Urspelerpes brucei. Two ...

Red-backed salamanders are little lungless salamanders that live in the deciduous forests of eastern and central U.S. and up into Canada. They have one of the biggest distributions of any North ...

New genetic evidence suggests ancient amphibians heeded this advice, migrating from the West Coast of North America to Asia via a land bridge connecting Alaska and Siberia about 80 million years ago.

Living as we do here in the southern Blue Ridge province, we're situated smack dab in the middle of a region internationally renowned for its diverse salamander populations. Several of the species are ...

Tucked under a rock at the headwaters of White’s Run in White’s Woods, I found a seal salamander in March 2018, 83 years after Graham Netting of the Carnegie Museum spotted them near Coleman’s Hill in ...

Researchers find that Plethodontidae, a dominant family of salamanders, all of which are lungless as adults, actually develop lungs as embryos shedding light on the evolution of lung loss over ...