Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota commemorates those French-Canadian fur traders ( Voyageurs ), the first Europeans to travel through the area with their canoes 250 years ago. Indeed, while there ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park might be crowded, but that’s only because it’s wonderful. Here’s why—and a guide to ...

By creating favorable conditions for their food, safety, and shelter, birdwatchers can delight in the sight of large flocks ...

Travel there in the fall and join other “leaf peepers” seeking the brilliant orange, gold, and red colors of trees lining the trails ... and perhaps you’ll cross paths with a blue-spotted salamander ...

That’s Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area near Rogers, Arkansas – a sprawling 12,056-acre wonderland that somehow remains ...

That’s exactly what happened to me at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area near Rogers, Arkansas – a 12,056-acre paradise that ...

The bottom will grow later, but the new seat will be dull or light in color. Red-backed salamanders do not have lungs ... the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments are orange, and the rear parts are black.

Their colors vary depending on their surroundings ... aye-ayes use echolocation to find their way around and can scale trees headfirst. They have large, glaring orange or tan eyes that are spherical.

Nine-year-old Ruby Banta thought it was a pretty simple choice, even for adults. “This was the salamander’s habitat first,” she said after an afternoon soccer game. “It’s not a college ...

It is salamander season again! This is the time of year when our local amphibians will be migrating back to their natal pools to mate and lay eggs. We were recently talking about amphibians in ...

Now, we’ve got two more reasons to brag: Bolitoglossa chiquitica and Bolitoglossa silentium, tiny salamanders we’ve just discovered in our own Talamanca Mountains. With these finds, Costa Rica claims ...

Everything seems to be anti-orange nowadays and just as a matter of conversion it’s one of my favorite colors. Pumpkins, sunsets, eggs sunny-side up (what could go wrong with that?) All this ...