JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site have discovered the remains of a giant salamander that once called prehistoric Appalachia home. According to a news release from East ...

The discovery provides another key data point about a little-known species for which every observation matters ...

A park ranger patrolling remote streams in California recently stumbled onto something most people will never see in their lifetime: a California giant salamander, one of the largest amphibians on the ...

This summer in eastern Ohio, more than 100 giant salamanders were released into local streams. The animals, called hellbenders, had been raised in captivity and were finally ready to head back into ...

Gaiasia jennyae measured 6-to-8 feet long and possessed four-inch fangs, per an eye-opening study published in the journal "Nature." Fangs for the memories. The tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t the first ...

The 2.5-foot-long hellbender (a.k.a. “the snot otter” a.k.a. “the devil dog” a.k.a. North America’s largest salamander) once populated the waterways all over the northeastern United States. Now, its ...