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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Eastern hellbenders could soon receive federal protection, according to a proposal that was made by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on Thursday. U.S. wildlife officials said ...

But humans aren’t the only species whose communities were ravaged by the floodwaters. Helene devastated some of the few remaining healthy populations of an iconic Appalachian species — the eastern ...

Eastern hellbenders are indicators of good water quality. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing new protections for the eastern hellbender five years after denying endangered status for the ...

Slippery, camouflaged, strong-jawed hellbenders are one of the largest salamander species in the world, experts say, and they are also endangered. In hopes of saving the species, Saint Louis Zoo’s Ron ...

Hellbenders may not be pretty to everyone, but these strictly aquatic salamanders are as interesting as their awesome name implies — and they grow up to 2 feet long and sometimes top 4 pounds, making ...

Staff members at the Saint Louis Zoo are hustling as they care for the 1,300-plus hellbenders that hatched in the last few months of the year. From managing diverse diets to aquatic care, it takes ...

KENTUCKY (WDKY) — Biologists surveying an eastern Kentucky stream captured a glimpse of a rarely seen giant salamander whose numbers are declining. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife ...