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, ...

The Oregon Zoo, in partnership with the National Park Service and the High Desert Museum, has rescued 19 Mazama newts from Crater Lake National Park in an attempt to save the species from extinction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small but mighty cohort of endangered newts is showing promise in Portland. Last August, the Mazama newt — an amphibian species ...

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 ...

The Mazama newts are a unique subspecies of newts. They evolved over hundreds of years in Oregon’s Crater Lake after being cut off from tributaries, and can’t be found anywhere else in the world as a ...

Fly above the awe-inspiring caldera of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the ...

For years, the Mazama newt lived peacefully and without predators at Crater Lake in southern Oregon. Many newts, particularly rough-skinned ones, have poisonous skin as a form of protection, but these ...