Pittielynn

Gosh to goodness! That is terrifying!! And yet...strangely...entrancing... *Stares with awed disgust*

This...is for you:



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Yes.

Newts are a specific subfamily of aquatic salamander:
Urodele (salamanders) --> Salamandridae ("true" salamanders and newts) --> Pleurodelinae (newts)

It helps when you know the Family that newts are in, and can search on government pages for records of the species in New Brunswick. We actually just talked about these guys in herpetology today, they have a pretty cool life cycle. The eggs are laid in water and hatch into an aquatic larvae (this is usual for urodeles--the salamanders). Next, though, depending on environmental conditions it either metamorphoses into an aquatic adult or a "red eft" (the form you saw) that is terrestrial. The red eft eventually metamorphoses into the aquatic adult phase. It's the only species of amphibian to alter metamorphosis like this. =)
The red eft stage does have toxic skin (that's why it's so brightly colored), but unless your pal ate it he's fine.

I believe it is a common Eastern newt (also known as the Red Spotted Newt), Notophthalmus viridescens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_newt
The pictures in the wikipedia are all of the juvenile stage, which looks quite different than your adult specimen, but here is a better one:

Do you have a picture? If not, just tell me everything you remember, including whether it was on dry land, wet land, water, whether its skin was wet or dry, whether its skin was bumpy or smooth, etc.

I should be able to help you though. =)

Wow... so much has changed in the world of AS... must get used to this...

Hmmm. How odd indeed! O.O

Perhaps Almost Smart, being in part a bunch of assorted numbers, prefers "pi" (as in 3.1415926535897932384626433832795..., of course!) over any sort of implied, Spanish spiciness. Or maybe it just is mean and likes making people sad. *Pokes AS in its digital ribs and laughs vindictively*

Remember that time I traced you and determined where you live and what school you went to? That's how.

Also, I'm a wizard.

I still want to call you sometime... to speak to a real live Canadian and not a Canadian impersonator as has so often been the case.

If it's extra grease you want, it's extra grease you'll get.
As long as you don't feed it to your platoon...that would slow them down.