A rare giant salamander called an eastern hellbender was spotted recently in Kentucky. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Services posted a photo of the hellbender taken by one of their ...

The discovery also closes an important gap in the known history of a very ancient amphibian family.

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 ...

Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived around 3.5 million years ago in a ...

Twenty-seven hellbenders, a large species of salamander, were released into Tennessee waterways as part of conservation efforts for the endangered species. Sean Brunson Photo from Nashville Zoo ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gaiasia jennyae measured 6-to-8 feet long and possessed four-inch fangs, per an eye-opening study published in the journal "Nature ...

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 ...

River dams have long been blamed for disrupting the movements of fish, and not just the marine species; they can also cause ...

An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land. By Asher Elbein See more of our coverage ...

The tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t the first toothy predator on earth. 40 million years before dinosaurs became the world’s apex predators, there existed a human-sized salamander with four-inch fangs, ...