When a male smooth newt enters a murky pond to court a mate, his body has already transformed in ways that go far beyond a ...

The answer comes in the form of an evolutionary arms race that pits the toxin of the newt, tetrodotoxin or TTX, against the voltage-gated sodium channels of the snake. The newt's toxin typically ...

Snakes don't eat fugu, the seafood delicacy prepared from blowfish meat and famed for its poisonous potential. However, should a common garter snake wander into a sushi restaurant, it could fearlessly ...

The federal government announced this week that it is considering listing an Oregon newt that lives only at Crater Lake National Park as threatened or endangered ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Conservationists have struck a deal with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that could open the door to a small and delicate population of unique Oregon amphibians receiving federal ...

Rough-skinned newts harbor in their skin massive doses of the same deadly toxin found in blowfish. Garter snakes that dine on the newts have evolved resistance to the toxin, spurring greater toxicity ...