BATON ROUGE - Long and brown with tiny easy-to-miss legs, you could mistake "Chrissy" for an eel or snake, but she is actually a three-toed amphiuma, a species of aquatic salamander often found in ...
Amphibian populations around the world are declining due to a skin disease caused by fungus. However, an amphibian commonly found in Louisiana, the three-toed amphiuma, has shown a resistance to the ...
Amphibian populations around the world are declining due to a skin disease caused by fungus. However, an amphibian commonly found in Louisiana, the three-toed amphiuma, has shown a resistance to the ...
Lynn Pridgen of Creola was surprised to find this three-toed amphiuma in a minnow trap he had set in a shallow lake near his house. (Courtesy Lynn Pridgen) Welcome to my Cast and Blast column. My goal ...
A gentle 4-pound, eel-like salamander, named Dionne, is the pet amphiuma in the offices of John Pojman, professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. After my blog on the ...
Amphibian populations around the world are declining due to a skin disease caused by fungus. However, an amphibian commonly found in Louisiana, the three-toed amphiuma, has shown a resistance to the ...