Baby hellbender salamanders don't stand a chance against their fathers who have gone rogue and started cannibalizing their offspring. For the past eight years, scientists from Virginia Tech have been ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA) -- Pennsylvanians can now get a license plate featuring the state amphibian, the Eastern hellbender. The Eastern hellbender is the largest salamander in the United States -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MountainTrue Watauga County Riverkeeper Andy Hill helps rehabilitate and restore eastern hellbender habitats across Watauga County ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- To look at the wide, flat, slimy face of a hellbender with its beady eyes and goofy grin, you might not think it's sending us a message. However, the hellbender's absence from a ...

Biologists with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Purdue University recently documented a very young hellbender salamander, a gilled larva, in the Blue River while conducting ...

NEW YORK— In response to a lawsuit filed by five conservation groups, a federal judge found today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2019 denial of Endangered Species Act protection for the ...

OZARK, Mo. — An endangered Ozark hellbender raised by the Saint Louis Zoo has successfully reproduced within the Current River. This is a significant milestone in the recovery efforts of the species, ...

The species has existed for millions of years, but the salamanders are threatened by poor water quality and populations have drastically declined. Hannah Woodburn holds an eastern hellbender ...

The eastern hellbender – a large salamander that also goes by the sobriquets “grampus,” “devil dog” and “snot otter – was on the way out. It seemed that human beings had it in for the hellbender.

The giant salamander called the hellbender has been put on a list of species that may soon be considered endangered. Now, when fully grown, it takes two hands to just even hold one. The hellbender, ...