Prague Zoo says it likely has the longest Chinese giant salamander now on Earth, a 1.58 metre amphibian called Karlo.

For the fourth consecutive year, the City of Burlington will be closing a stretch of road to allow the threatened Jefferson salamander safe passage during its annual spring migration to lay eggs.

Due to habitat destruction the number of blotched tiger salamanders has been in decline in recent years, so when a south Okanagan family found nearly two dozen dead last week they were shocked.