The "healthiest" of eastern hellbender salamander habitats was considered to be in North Carolina and Tennessee, the area devastated by Helene. The Endangered Species Act prohibits the “take ...

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

the Holly Springs Salamanders, or the Savannah Bananas; bumping fists and dropping pucks for the Carolina Hurricanes; or fetching kicking tees for the North Carolina State University football team ...

Hellbender salamanders call Tennessee and 14 other states in the United States home, including Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia ...