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Newts and true salamanders live in Eurasia, North Africa and North America. Their skin releases toxic substances. Bright colours sometimes warn predators. Many return to ponds and streams to breed each spring. Several can regrow a lost limb. Their slender body ends in a long tail.
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Salamandridae
Ichthyosaura alpestris · Least concern
Its name comes from a mountain, yet it also lives in lowlands. The Austrian zoologist Laurenti first described the alpine newt in 1768 from the Ötscher, in the Austrian Alps. It spends most of the year in forests and heads to ponds only to breed, where males court females with a ritual display.
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Salamandridae
Salamandra atra · Least concern
No pond for its young: unlike most salamanders, whose larvae grow up in water, the alpine salamander gives birth to live young on land. Its name atra means 'dull black', and this jet-black amphibian lives under stones and logs high in the Alps, usually above 700 m and up to 2,000 m. It can live at least 10 years.
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Salamandridae
Pleurodeles waltl · Least concern
Europe's largest newt defends itself by pushing its sharp ribs out through its sides. It has also flown in space, first in 1985 aboard Bion 7. Scientists chose it because a female can keep live sperm in her cloaca for up to five months: inseminated on Earth, she can have fertilisation triggered by hormones once in orbit.
Photo: Diego González Dopico (CC BY 4.0)
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