Dipper Ranch

Red-bellied newts spend most of their lives underground and we know little about what they do there.    The genetic results for the un...

Monte Bello Open Space Preserve is split by Stevens Creek and the San Andreas Fault    I had a third theory about how red-bellied new...

Dr.Victor C. Twitty (left) and academic colleagues, 1955, Amherst Photograph from Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg memorial website    In ...

A red-bellied newt in hand in the field   "In addition to being a delightful place to live, northern California offers an asse...

Preserved specimen of California newt at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. This is specimen MVZ:Herp:...

Eyed by newt on the landslide road. Is it a loathsome creature or a fairy?    When is a newt not a newt?  When it is a lizard?  When ...

As it walks through the forest litter, the red-bellied newt with its dark brown back and black eyes momentarily flashes the bright-red un...

A photo on a computer screen in the ranger office    Months went by and I forgot about the alleged red-bellied newt of Santa Clara C...

Chuck, long-distance runner and trail patrol volunteer, and his partner Chris Sometimes you meet someone whose physical appearance so ...

This is a story of a dark-eyed stranger, one of the most powerful neurotoxins in the natural world, a suicide, and something out of ...