“Without endangered species protections this cute little newt will soon blink out of existence,” said Chelsea Stewart-Fusek, ...

The newt exists only in Crater Lake, and its populations have plummeted in recent years because of warming lake temperatures and the expanding population of signal crayfish, a predator species ...

"They have cute little eyes that kind of bug out. They kind of look like a cartoon character," Gale says. But they're very slow movers and for this otherwise healthy population of newts about 50 ...

Four years later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and little Newt, as he was nicknamed, was freed from enslavement. He was just shy of five years old.

“Without endangered species protections this cute little newt will soon blink out of existence,” said Chelsea Stewart-Fusek, an endangered species attorney at the Center. “We need funding right now to ...