The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources announced Monday the agency will start a new citizen project to track the ...

Bright colors on an otherwise green or brown forest floor can get our attention. Normally the growing space beneath a woodland canopy does not have the colorful flowers we can see in spring. When ...

September slips in over a glorious weekend reflecting less the coming of fall but more the arrival of summer. Blue, blue skies with drifting clouds, brilliant sunshine and steamy heat. We are not ...

Story by Sandy de Waal Malefyt * Photo by Jim de Waal Malefyt Bright colors on an otherwise green or brown forest floor can get our attention. Normally the growing space beneath a woodland canopy does ...

You’re probably familiar with the basic amphibian life plan: Start as a wriggly, water-breathing tadpole, transform into an adult that breathes air. This is the pattern followed by all our frogs and ...

The Eastern newt is one of nature’s stranger salamanders. As a larva, it has gills and lives in the water. As a 5-inch-long adult, it has no gills but still lives in the water. But as a juvenile, in ...

This year, of course, spring came in February. That's when Kane County Forest Preserve District Naturalist Josh Libman was hiking at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles and spotted something ...

The eastern U.S. is the world’s salamander hotspot, with more species per area than anywhere else on the planet. Often superabundant, salamanders hold important ecological roles in their habitats.

Sometimes smooth, sometimes slippery, but always unique. Introducing one of the most interesting salamander relatives: newts. Newts are found in Europe, Asia, and North America. This lizard-frog ...

One of my favorite memories is hiking up Mount Kearsarge with my dad and finding tiny red newts climbing along the trails with us. These are the “teenage” stage of the Eastern red-spotted newt, a type ...

You’re probably familiar with the basic amphibian life plan: Start as a wriggly water-breathing tadpole, transform into an adult that breathes air. This is the pattern followed by all our frogs and ...