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Eastern newt News Archive
Nov. 30, 2018
Salamanders Helping Salamanders
The secret to salamanders’ survival may be in their slimy secretions. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are swabbing salamanders in Shenandoah, looking for disease-fighting...
