The red-backed salamander's larvae pass through most of their gill-breathing stage while in the egg, and when they hatch in late summer, the gills have significantly reduced.

Eastern red-backed salamanders are native to the eastern United States and Canada. Smithsonian/Brian Gratwicke. Prosperous and hardy, the Eastern red-backed salamander is an unassuming creature ...

A red-backed salamander, discovered during a class field trip to clean up a park. Photograph by Rachel Girshick. After that initial discovery, “we just saw more and more and more and more of them,” ...

So, why the red-backed salamander? According to one fourth-grader, it has “many cool features.” The amphibian can be between two and five inches long.

“The red-backed salamander’s red stripes emulate the D.C. flag,” said Milo Evans Snyder. The students also told the council there are far more red-backed salamanders in D.C. than there are ...

When my kids were little, we always looked for red-backed salamanders, and back then, almost 30 years ago, I could believe those statistics. They were everywhere.

Fourth graders from Powell Elementary School testified in support of a bill they wrote to recognize the red-backed salamander. The Washington Post. D.C. doesn’t have an official amphibian.

Scientists knew that red-backed salamanders were abundant in eastern North America, but a recent study found their densities and biomass across the region were much higher than expected.

There were red-backed [salamanders] and some other ones that we were able to find," he says. "Based on what we saw [Saturday], everything is doing really well." ...

Many salamanders, like the red-backed salamander, are tiny and spend the majority of their time underground, so it’s easy for most people to overlook them. In fact, Grant commonly refers to ...

The other salamander under the log was a red-backed salamander. Once again, they are fairly common in the Northland. Also, 4-5 inches long, they have a reddish marking down the whole back, ...