Last August, the Mazama newt — an amphibian species found only in Crater Lake — moved into the Oregon Zoo’s conservation lab ...

WASHINGTON— In a legal victory for the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today agreed to consider granting Endangered Species Act protections to the striped newt, ...

The Striped Newt, an amphibian native to Florida and Georgia, was denied endangered species protection in 2018 by the Trump administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now considering ...

On Thursday, the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity submitted a legal petition for protection of the Crater Lake newt under the Endangered Species Act to the U.S. Fish and ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama ...

The Mazama newts are a unique subspecies of newts. They evolved over hundreds of years in Oregon’s Crater Lake after being cut off from tributaries, and can’t be found anywhere else in the world as a ...

The struggling population of Mazama newts are finding a new home at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Oregon Zoo in Portland due to their own climate becoming increasingly challenging. The newts, ...

Environmentalists filed suit Thursday in a bid to secure Endangered Species Act protections for the striped newt, a little critter that’s no stranger to litigation. Fifteen years after it was included ...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) transmitted a 60-day Notice of Intent To Sue (“NOI”) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) for alleged violations of the Endangered Species Act ...

Sally Gale is a rancher in rural west Marin County, California. In addition to raising beef cattle, she leads a specialized brigade — one that's helped save thousands of amphibians. The amphibians are ...

Crater Lake's famously pure water and a newt that calls the lake home are under threat from the explosion of an invasive crayfish, leading to potential action under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S ...

Researchers describe the new species as having "large" eyes and "v"-shaped teeth, according to a new peer-reviewed study Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...