Natural closeup on a bright red Western redback salamander, Plethodon vehiculum sitting on the ground.(Getty Images/Wirestock) Fourth grade students from Powell Elementary School testified Wednesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio is home to many salamander species, including the red-backed salamander. It was recently found wriggling around at the Ohio ...

This video is no longer available. Students at Powell Elementary School in D.C. studied the red-backed salamander and thought that its red strips looked like the District’s flag. Now the D.C. Council ...

Vertebrate animals are those with backbones – fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. As a group, they are much less abundant than invertebrates such as insects, spiders, and mollusks. But ...

It’s not a swamp dweller, but the red-backed salamander is now the District’s official amphibian — thanks to lobbying by students at Powell Elementary School. The designation was retroactively ...

This is the seventh in a series looking at 10 of the most unusual and noteworthy endangered species in Alabama. The state is one of the most biodiverse in the nation, and today there are 131 species ...

Red-backed salamanders are little lungless salamanders that live in the deciduous forests of eastern and central U.S. and up into Canada. They have one of the biggest distributions of any North ...