BLOOMINGTON − WonderLab employees and visitors are mourning the death of one of the science museum's most beloved creatures.

Juneau has four resident amphibians that breed in fresh water: wood frogs and western (boreal) toads, which have geographic ranges extending way up north, Columbia spotted frogs, which range to about ...

Snakes don't eat fugu, the seafood delicacy prepared from blowfish meat and famed for its poisonous potential. However, should a common garter snake wander into a sushi restaurant, it could fearlessly ...

Animals are poisonous to prevent other animals from eating them. However, a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology investigating the toxic rough-skinned newt finds that, ...

With their deadly foes — garter snakes — snugly curled up in their hibernacula (winter quarters), rough-skinned newts are wiggly kings of the forest floor on these fairly moderate January days on Cape ...

Evolutionary history is filled with "arms race" relationships between organisms locked in struggles of adaptation and escalation. This is an example of coevolution. Usually, we think of a population ...

There’s a march underway in the wild spaces of Lacey. Over leaves and around blades of grass, thousands of tiny feet plod with a single-minded purpose. It’s mating season for the rough-skinned newt.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah State University reachers who've been following the evolutionary battle between toxic newts and the garter snakes that prey upon them have discovered the molecular basis of ...

As the first drops of rain hit the leaves, brown and orange newts emerge from their shelters and head down into the misty storm. California newts and rough-skinned newts are local to the East Bay and ...