When scores of tiger salamanders started going belly up in cattle watering holes statewide, ecologist Jim Collins of Arizona State University teamed with doctoral student James Jancovitch to investigate. (discovermagazine.com)
Here, scientists brought in a series of wild axolotls to mix up the gene pool and at one point even added in tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum). (scientificamerican.com)
The pond is a documented breeding area for the eastern tiger salamander, one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States and a species on the state's endangered list. (newsday.com)