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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 ...

Palmate newts, thumb-size amphibians found across Western Europe, have developed a remarkable survival strategy. Some adults never fully metamorphose. Instead, they retain their gills, remain ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have found that female toxic newts are far more deadly and ...

Tetrodotoxin, the neurotoxin that makes a blue-ringed octopus deadly, also protects Taricha newts—but we don't understand how they produce it, or what purposes it serves for them. A first step to ...

Rare Mazama newts, only found at Crater Lake, hatched for the first time in human care in July at the Oregon Zoo.

One of the great crested newts, which were found in ponds in north Swindon Great crested newts have been discovered in overgrown ponds thought to have been uninhabitable. Experts found a stable, ...

Newts have genomes 10 times larger than those of humans, making it nearly impossible to sequence their entire DNA. To gain insight nonetheless, teams in Poland and Serbia bred different newt species.

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 ...

Salamanders get a little help across the road from some two-legged friends in Northern California. A newt eager to get across a road was assisted by members of the Chileno Valley Newt Brigade in Marin ...