Great Smoky Mountains National Park embarks on new hellbender study | Word from the Smokies
The giant salamanders spend most of their lives nearly invisible under rocks in streams, which has made it difficult to ...
Word from the Smokies: Amid Helene damage, hellbenders may get endangered species listing
Tropical Storm Helene devastated healthy populations of the eastern hellbender salamander. Because of this they may receive ...
How listing hellbenders as endangered species could restore rivers | Word from the Smokies
The giant salamander species in Appalachia was already in trouble when Hurricane Helene devastated swaths of its habitat in ...
Lehigh Valley Live1mon
This giant salamander is Pennsylvania’s official amphibian, and could be endangered
You never forget your first time seeing a giant salamander ... a line on an early fall day when he saw his first eastern hellbender. The salamander stretched 2 feet long and was camouflaged ...
Penn Live1mon
Oh, hellbender: Pa.’s official amphibian could be deemed endangered
You never forget your first time seeing a giant salamander ... a line on an early fall day when he saw his first eastern hellbender. The salamander, also known as a snot otter, stretched 2 ...
WWNO19d
Hellbender salamanders could be added to endangered species list
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 ...
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How listing hellbenders as endangered species could restore rivers | Word from the Smokies
Helene devastated some of the few remaining healthy populations of an iconic Appalachian species: the eastern hellbender ... proposal to list the giant salamander as an endangered species.