EASTCOURT, England—The bane of Britain’s great and powerful is a couple of inches long, has warty skin and a bright orange underbelly—and the power to disrupt some of their most heartfelt ambitions.

LONDON — First came the rain, and while that will never go away, Burberry has moved onto another aspect of British summer life, lounging in the countryside, preferably with a Pimm’s gin cocktail in ...

Warty newts breed from March to June and are more vulnerable to harm during this period Walkers taking dogs into community woodland are being asked to ensure their dogs do not harm a rare and ...

John and Margaret Histed own a beautiful English farmhouse in the heart of rural Wiltshire - to the south west of London. Last summer, during a series of almost Biblical rainstorms, their home was ...

Rough-skinned newts harbor in their skin massive doses of the same deadly toxin found in blowfish. Garter snakes that dine on the newts have evolved resistance to the toxin, spurring greater toxicity ...

Salamanders get a little help across the road from some two-legged friends in Northern California. A newt eager to get across a road was assisted by members of the Chileno Valley Newt Brigade in Marin ...

Juneau has four resident amphibians that breed in fresh water: wood frogs and western (boreal) toads, which have geographic ranges extending way up north, Columbia spotted frogs, which range to about ...