This is the time of year when our local amphibians will be migrating back to their natal pools to mate and lay eggs.

The Ijams Nature Center is excited about eggs they spotted in a pond this week. What they spotted were spotted salamander eggs. The Ijams team posted on social media to tell the public about the ...

An area near Shelburne Pond that will be closed ... to have two spotted salamanders survive to adulthood for each female that’s laying eggs. And each female is laying eggs for 10 or 15 years ...

However, one study documented flatwoods salamanders as far as 5,576 feet from a breeding pond. BREEDING: Adults typically leave their burrows on rainy nights in late fall to migrate to isolated, ...

Newt eggs are particularly sensitive to increased acidity and are absent from ponds affected by acid rain. The tiger, spotted, Jefferson's, blue-spotted, and marbled salamanders are the New York ...

Every year, typically in early spring, many of Vermont’s amphibians leave their overwintering sites and migrate to the wetlands and ponds where they will breed and lay eggs. The timing ... The spotted ...

Females can lay up to 300 eggs in clumps ... fully mature and return to the pond to breed. "Their life cycle is just very interesting," said Zagorski. Salamanders are in a race to complete ...

They react swiftly to warming spring temperatures, outpacing the females as they reach the ponds ... salamanders. Male frogs grab receptive females from behind and hold on, fertilizing the eggs ...

Ambystoma is derived from either the Latin anabystoma, meaning “to cram into the mouth,” or from amblystoma, the Greek for “blunt mouth.” DESCRIPTION: Large for a modern amphibian, the male California ...