The UK's wild newt populations seem to be free from a flesh-eating lethal fungus known to be prevalent in privately-owned amphibians across Western Europe, a nationwide investigation has found.

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Warty newts breed from March to June and are more vulnerable to harm during this period Walkers taking dogs into community woodland are being asked to ensure their dogs do not harm a rare and ...

The lives of hundreds of rare newts have been saved, after they unwittingly fell into drains at a pond in the Vale of Glamorgan in search of food. Moves were taken to give a little help to one of the ...

Unlike mammals, a group of salamanders called newts can regenerate their limbs – repeatedly and at any age. According to a new Nature Communications study, adult newts have managed to secure their ...

Like Peter Pan, the alpine newt sometimes refuses to grow up. In their juvenile form, these alpine newts slurp up plankton in the icy mountain pools they call home, as high as 8,000 feet above sea ...

If you spot a small, long-tailed amphibian near a forested pond, you are likely looking at a salamander or a newt. But what's the difference between a salamander and a newt? And how do you tell them ...

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Boris Johnson may have to water down plans for a new swimming pool after a local population of newts made waves in his application. The former prime minister - who once blamed "newt counting" for ...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 3rd June 2016—A new study has uncovered a large trade in Southeast Asia’s little-known newts, taken from the wild for the international pet trade. The researchers found over ...