Yet the Blanco blind salamander, a species native to Texas, is one of the collection ... Some water oozed out, and in it were several pale-white salamanders. As the story goes, workers put ...

The Texas Blind Salamander, with its ghostly white skin and hauntingly vacant ... geology creates isolated pockets where different species can evolve in total seclusion. Within these watery ...

According to TPWD, this species of salamander is considered endangered both in Texas and the U.S. It was federally listed as endangered in March 1967. A pair of whooping cranes walk through ...

“It’s my white whale,” he said of the salamander ... is in a warehouse in Austin, Texas — and it’s not in great shape. Finding and studying this species in the wild could help answer ...

Until recently, it was thought that 30 species of salamander live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But a recent article in Bionomia, the international journal devoted to biological naming ...

The species including the Texas blind salamander and the Comal Springs riffle beetle will all require sustained improvements in the quality and quantity of water that’s essential for their ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.