🌊🦎 Although eastern newts are aquatic as larvae and adults, juveniles (called red efts) live on land! Around 2 to 5 months of age, their lungs, legs and eyelids make them more suited to life on land. As they search for water, they make their homes in leaf litter along the way. . . . #AmphibianWeek | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Meet a newt! (Or four.) These incredible, critically endangered Luristan newts—endemic to the Zagros Mountains of Iran—just moved into our Water Planet exhibit. In the wild, their brilliant patterns warn predators of a toxic meal; here, their black-white-pink-orange coloration invites your eyeballs to stay a while. | California Academy of Sciences