Small long-toed salamander populations exist only at Oxbow Pond in Las Lomas, McClusky and Zmudowski sloughs and parts of Moro Cojo Slough, D’Amore said.

They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967. That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...

WATSONVILLE — Several Santa Cruz long-toed salamander larvae were discovered in Elkhorn Slough on Tuesday for the first time in four years, giving the endangered species a fighting chance at ...

“If the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander is lost, it would mean a critical link in wetland and forest ecosystems would be lost.” He continued: “The public can help this species by supporting local ...

MOSS LANDING – Landowners in the Monterey Bay area could help scientists uncover more about the elusive and highly threatened long-toed Santa Cruz salamander by lending researchers their ...

The Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and the Col orado River squawfish — to say nothing of the timber wolf, the grizzly bear and ...

40 million years before dinosaurs became the world’s apex predators, there existed a human-sized salamander with four-inch fangs, according to scientists.