However, the red-backed salamander has surmounted all possible obstacles to become D.C.’s official amphibian. Students from ...

Wandering salamanders are known for gliding high through the canopies of coastal redwood forests, but how the small ...

There are two species of large salamanders in New York, and both spend their entire lives in water. The mudpuppy, with its bright red gills, reaches lengths of 19 inches and is found in several large ...

A red-backed salamander that is a chocolate brown base color with white speckling and a distinctly bright red-orange stripe running the length of its back from its neck to the tip of its tail rest ...

A group of fourth grade students from Powell Bilingual Elementary School put on a reenactment of D.C. Law 25-251, the bill that would designate the red-backed salamander as D.C.’s official amphibian.