RESTRICTIONS ARE IN PLACE UNTIL FRIDAY. IT’S TEMPTING TO PICK OUT AN EXOTIC CREATURE FROM A PET STORE. IT SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY HARMLESS PURCHASE, RIGHT? YEAH, BUT THOSE PETS CAN OFTEN CARRY DISEASES ...

A recent rule put in place in 2016 restricting the international import of 201 salamander species into the United States aimed to prevent the newly discovered deadly salamander fungal disease, ...

Imported pet salamanders carry a new disease that could threaten salamander populations in New York state with extinction. Beth Bunting, a wildlife veterinarian with the Cornell University College of ...

Axolotls, often called "water dogs," are a unique species of salamander gaining popularity among exotic pet enthusiasts. Unlike most amphibians, these creatures retain their larval features throughout ...

Scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have been checking to see whether an import moratorium on possible carriers of a deadly disease will have time to protect American ...

In 2008, scientists started noticing that populations of fire salamanders were disappearing in Western Europe. A few years later, nearly all had vanished from large portions of Germany, Belgium and ...

If salamanders could worry, they would already have a long list of woes, including losing their homes to deforestation, or becoming an avian snack. But a newly discovered pathogen could easily trump ...

A recent rule put in place in 2016 restricting the international import of 201 salamander species into the United States aimed to prevent the newly discovered deadly salamander fungal disease, ...