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 ...

Eastern newt populations in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada are at greatest risk of infection with a new skin-eating fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), according ...

Scientists on hike in Greece found several alpine newts scavenging on a dead rodent, a first-of-its-kind behavior for the amphibian, a study said. Photo from Daftsios, Iakovidis, Gogolos and Sagonas ...

Edinburgh University palaeontologist Dr Stephen Brusatte lead the team that found skeletal remains of the newly-dubbed Metoposaurus algarvensis in the remains of a lake in the Algarve region of ...

ELKINS, W.Va. (WBOY) — If you see a little orange guy crawling in the woods in West Virginia, it’s probably an eastern newt, the Mountain State’s own amphibian, and officials say they need your help.

The genus Taricha, or Pacific newts, includes four species of toxic cuties: the California newt, the rough-skinned newt, the red-bellied newt and the Sierra newt. These semiaquatic, nocturnal ...