Most salamanders go largely unnoticed by humans due to their small size and secluded habitats. The soft-bodied hermits spend their days underground, in water or under the cover of moist leaves — ...

Salamanders feed on bat guano in cave system Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com November 21, 2005 A species of blind, cave-dwelling salamander in Oklahoma feeds on bat guano according to research ...

The components of feeding behavior of captive metamorphosed tiger salamanders, Ambystoma tigrinum, before and after successful consumption of prey, were determined and described. Transitions between ...

Developmental water-land transitions in salamanders were used to model possible changes in the feeding behavior of early tetrapods.

When juvenile salamanders hatch, they are already metamorphosed into fully terrestrial salamanders. FEEDING: Siskiyou Mountains salamanders are sit-and-wait predators, concealing themselves under ...

When juvenile salamanders hatch, they are already metamorphosed into fully terrestrial salamanders. FEEDING: Siskiyou Mountains salamanders are sit-and-wait predators, concealing themselves under ...

Red-backed salamanders can survive these dry times by doing something called ‘pulse feeding’ in which they gorge when there is plenty of food and store the excess calories as fat in their tails.

Even in summer and fall there's sufficient moisture under the cobbles to maintain the insects, worms, slugs and small invertebrates salamanders feed upon.

Such is the hunt for the salamander-killing fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in the United States. Its spherical spores, which feed on salamanders’ […] ...