Struggling to tell the difference between a smooth newt and a palmate newt, or want to know where to look for a natterjack toad? Well we hope our handy table helps you identify these cold-blooded animals and also where to look for them this summer. Leer más.

American Museum of Natural History. New York. May 18, 2013 – January 5, 2014. Leer más.

Everyone likes a good soak in a hot spring now and again, but imagine spending your whole life in one! Now imagine being the size of a pencil and unable to regulate your own body temperature, and you’re doing a pretty good approximation of a Tibetan Hot-spring Snake (Thermophis). Leer más.

They may be lucky when it comes to staying young, but it appears the now-famous Badger Army Ammunition Plant salamanders are less fortunate when it comes to staying healthy. Leer más.

Mostly out of sight, and perhaps out of mind also, the world has been losing its amphibians to a disease called chytridiomycosis, caused by the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Leer más.