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 ...

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 ...

A giant salamander that once lived in the London Zoo and was later on display at the Natural History Museum represents a new species that may be the world's largest amphibian. A giant salamander that ...

Releasing Chinese giant salamanders back into the wild sounds like a good idea, but it's causing problems for the salamanders ...

The Chinese giant salamander, the world’s largest amphibian and a critically endangered species, has quietly slipped toward extinction in nature. After an exhaustive, yearslong search, researchers ...

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. Hellbenders ...

KYOTO, Japan – In Japanese rivers, if you’re very lucky, you might find unusual amphibians that grow up to 5 feet long and look like strange cartoon dinosaurs. They are giant salamanders. “Salamanders ...

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 Some 280 million years ...

Hidden deep beneath the dark swamps of coastal Alabama, monsters lurk. Reaching nearly four feet long, with a carnivorous appetite and a vicious bite, rarely using its tiny legs, instead slithering ...

They call them snot otters, devil dogs and Allegheny alligators, all fitting nicknames for the fat brown salamanders lurking under river rocks — slimy giants of the NC mountains. Weighing 4 pounds and ...