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 ...

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 ...

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.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver attended a Portland Trail Blazers home game Friday night for the first time since October 2018. Everyday Heroes: Portland model makes difference on more runway than one A ...

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 ...