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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander to its list of endangered species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal to do so was ...

Tropical Storm Helene devastated healthy populations of the eastern hellbender salamander. Because of this they may receive ...

Could the eastern hellbender salamander become the newest endangered species in Tennessee? It's possible. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander ...

The giant salamander species in Appalachia was already in trouble when Hurricane Helene devastated swaths of its habitat in ...

Helene devastated some of the few remaining healthy populations of an iconic Appalachian species: the eastern hellbender ... And its long life cycle - hellbenders can live more than 30 years ...

The Eastern hellbender, a slimy, mud-colored creature that ranks as Indiana’s and the nation's largest salamander, may be listed federally as an endangered species. Nicknamed the “snot otter ...