{"id":61243,"date":"2021-03-03T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=61243"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T21:39:09","slug":"carolina-sandhills-salamander-discovery-featured-in-walter-magazine","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/carolina-sandhills-salamander-discovery-featured-in-walter-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Sandhills salamander discovery featured in Walter Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sandhills_Eurycea_05_Todd_Pusser.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-58570 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sandhills_Eurycea_05_Todd_Pusser_640w.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina Sandhills salamander (Eurycea arenicola) in life from North Carolina. (Todd Pusser)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sandhills_Eurycea_05_Todd_Pusser_640w.jpg 640w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sandhills_Eurycea_05_Todd_Pusser_640w-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sandhills_Eurycea_05_Todd_Pusser_640w-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Carolina Sandhills Salamander (<em>Eurycea arenicola<\/em>) in life, from North Carolina. Photo: Todd Pusser. Click to enlarge.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI thought it was just an oddball,\u201d says Alvin Braswell of the unusual red salamander he first saw in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, he was the assistant curator for lower invertebrates at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. It looked like a Southern Two-Lined Salamander (<em>Eurycea cirrigera<\/em>), but \u201cthe specimen had hardly any stripes, it was different \u2014 and it alerted us to pay more attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braswell went on to spend many rainy nights along streams \u201call over\u201d the Sandhills, burrowing through root tangles in search of more of these salamanders. He learned to find them on roadsides, where they tended to move on damp winter nights \u2014 little streaks on the asphalt, indistinguishable from pine needles when their heads were down.<\/p>\n<p>Five decades later, that \u201coddball\u201d red salamander is now known officially as the Carolina Sandhills Salamander (<em>Eurycea arenicola<\/em>). It marks the 64th salamander species for North Carolina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/waltermagazine.com\/explore\/carolina-sandhills-salamander\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the article in Walter Magazine<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58494,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/61243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/61243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}