Locals gave it names like snot otter and lasagna lizard, and scientists mostly looked the other way until populations began vanishing. Now researchers racing to understand North America's largest ...

Wild sightings of California giant salamanders are increasingly uncommon. So when a park ranger spotted one while monitoring streams in a remote forest in September 2025, the discovery thrilled ...

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

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 ...

Scientist found fossils that belong to the species, Limnospondylus ajimuensis. Fossils uncovered in Japan nearly two decades ago have revealed a giant salamander believed to have inhabited the ...

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You never forget your first time seeing a giant salamander, according to Andy Hill. He was a teenager, standing thigh-high in the Watauga River outside Boone, North Carolina, casting a line on an ...

River dams have long been blamed for disrupting the movements of fish, and not just the marine species; they can also cause serious obstacles for other freshwater wildlife. One such victim of river ...