For just one or two nights each spring, spotted salamanders emerge from underground and go in search of vernal mating pools.

Armed with a yellow and a black crayon, a 9-year-old conservationist recently helped persuade an Alabama university to rethink building a sprawling sports facility on a critical spotted salamander ...

I’m a little slow on the uptake for this one — what? It’s been a busy few … years — but I’m just catching up to the news that someone had to file a lawsuit to ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to ...

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HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Ellen McLaughlin said she wasn’t speaking for herself. “I speak for the salamanders,” she told those gathered at a community meeting in late March. McLaughlin, a retired Samford ...

On warm, rainy nights, volunteers are taking to the streets to give thousands of migrating amphibians a lift to safety.Conditions rarely beloved by ...

Salamanders emerge and great blue herons hunt in Summit Metro Parks each spring. Learn where and how to see them.

A rare lungless creature — speckled with yellow spots — breathes through its skin and lives in ancient rock faces of Appalachia in the southeastern U.S. It’s a “mascot of the mountains” and at risk of ...

Samford University and its partner Landmark Development today announced a plan to alter a proposed hotel and shopping development on Lakeshore Parkway to better accommodate one of Homewood’s favorite ...

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