The various Ensatina salamanders of the Pacific coast all descended from a common ancestral population. As the species spread southward from Oregon and Washington, subpopulations adapted to their ...

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying Endangered Species Act protections to East ...

These residents include eyeless fish, cave salamanders and an endangered albino cave shrimp. I had visited five national parks before I visited Mammoth Cave, including the Grand Canyon, but it was at ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

When Sergio García-Dils de la Vega kissed his girlfriend, Pilar Orche, goodbye at the entrance to Krubera Cave, he promised to return the next day. But after teammate Bernard Tourte bruised his ...

14,700 years ago, in a cave in Somerset, our ancestors were eating other people. Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The ...

"How cute is this?," Kim could be heard saying as she filmed the Halloween house. "From the Barkers," she added. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to ...

And around 35 miles to the west of Valle Crucis, in Elizabethton, Tennessee, James Pierce caught his cat trying to kill a cave salamander in the mud tray for his boots. Hurricane Helene caused ...