The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) holds the distinguished title of being the world’s largest amphibian.

The salamander was already featured as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and has apparently almost vanished from its freshwater home in China, Cunningham and ...

Japanese giant salamanders are a rare species with over 23 million years of history. Many Japanese and foreign volunteers have been moved to join Richard's cause.

ABOVE: LAUREN DIAZ W hen Clemson University master’s student Lauren Diaz set out to study the ecology of hellbender salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) in the streams of western North Carolina, ...

The giant salamander species in Appalachia was already in trouble when Hurricane Helene devastated swaths of its habitat in North Carolina.

Since 2006, the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute (CWI) has been studying and working to conserve the Eastern hellbender, a species of giant salamander native to the eastern United States.

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The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is asking the public to report sightings of giant salamanders called hellbenders, also known as water dogs or snot otters for their slimy secretions.

The eastern hellbender is one of only three giant salamanders on the planet,” said District 3 Commissioner Parker Sloan ...

These giant salamanders, which average 20 inches in length, spend most of their lives nearly invisible under rocks on the bottom of cool, fast-flowing streams. In a two-year research project ...