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The crested newt, shown here, develops a crest of skin along the back in the spring mating season. All male newts are brightly coloured at this time. The European newts, such as the smooth newt, live on land for part of the year but enter a pond or lake to breed in the spring.

Small salamander found in Europe, Asia, northwestern Africa, and North America. (Family Salamandridae, order Urodela.)

The red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) of E North America, about 9 cm/3.5 in long, is olive green with red spots when adult. The young, called red efts, are bright orange and are terrestrial.



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The American by James, Henry View in context
This general absence of frogs, toads, and newts on so many oceanic islands cannot be accounted for by their physical conditions; indeed it seems that islands are peculiarly well fitted for these animals; for frogs have been introduced into Madeira, the Azores, and Mauritius, and have multiplied so as to become a nuisance.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
I have seen them (ladies, I am sorry to say, as well as gentlemen) go out, day after day, for example, with empty pill-boxes, and catch newts, and beetles, and spiders, and frogs, and come home and stick pins through the miserable wretches, or cut them up, without a pang of remorse, into little pieces.
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