Newt Year's Day - January 1
Happy Newt Years Day! You may have a bunch of people wishing you a Happy Newt Year today, though many of them fail to pronounce the last "t" of "newt" [1]. Still, you have to give them credit for their enthusiasm about newts. Newts are a set of semiaquatic salamanders , and thus are amphibians . Despite a superficial resemblance to lizards, they are much more closely related to frogs and toads. Check here to find out if your salamander buddy is also a newt. Though I haven't taken a picture of a newt myself, I do have a picture of one of their salamander cousins . This Eastern Newt from iNaturalist shows just how photogenic they can be though. July 19, 2011 Photo 249874612, (c) litt10, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) [1] Perhaps this is similar to Stephen Colbert, where the family doesn't pronounce the last "t" either.