The struggling population of Mazama newts are finding a new home at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Oregon Zoo in Portland due to their own climate becoming increasingly challenging. The newts, ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Zoo is launching an emergency plan to save newts that are native to Crater Lake from extinction, the zoo announced Thursday. The zoo is teaming up with the National ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Mazama newt used to be head honcho at Crater Lake. Found only in the lake's cold waters, this brightly-colored semiaquatic species used to be one of the top predators in its ...
Mazama Newt photographed near Crater Lake National Park. Photo by Kyle Kosma / High Desert Museum. The Oregon Zoo, in partnership with the National Park Service and the High Desert Museum, has rescued ...
The zoo’s Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation worked with other conservation organizations to release the threatened species. The Apalachicola National Forest is now home to the striped newts, as ...
Read on for some chilling curiosities from the creatures of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...
A Magellanic penguin at the St. Louis Zoo in a 2004 file photo. ST. LOUIS • Newt Gingrich got up close with a penguin at the St. Louis Zoo — and has the bandage to prove it. The Republican ...
355 Days, 4 books and 8 zoo visits later, Newt Gingrich is calling it quits. April 30, 2012— -- intro:When Newt Gingrich officially ends his bid for the White House on Wednesday, his campaign, in ...