“Moments like this are why I wanted to work in a zoo in the first place,” said Ellie Bland, the Chester Zoo’s ectotherms ...

As the rainy season begins in Northern California, newts are on the move. Dedicated volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area are helping the tiny amphibians reach their breeding grounds safely. In the ...

Salamanders get a little help across the road from some two-legged friends in Northern California. A newt eager to get across a road was assisted by members of the Chileno Valley Newt Brigade in Marin ...

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On particularly warm and damp winter nights, as thousands of Pacific newts venture out onto the verdant ...

Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen) was awarded a $2.1 million state grant last month for the Alma Bridge Road Newt Passage Project, aimed at protecting the health of local newt ...

Tetrodotoxin, the neurotoxin that makes a blue-ringed octopus deadly, also protects Taricha newts—but we don't understand how they produce it, or what purposes it serves for them. A first step to ...

A HIGHLY endangered newt species has been released into the wild in Catalonia after breeding work by Chester Zoo.

L.A.'s only species of newt is showing signs of severe distress, troubling researchers and raising questions about the impacts of the drought and climate change. In the southern part of the state, the ...