Hellbenders are the largest of North America’s salamanders and grow up to 29 inches. They can live up to 30 years and spend their entire lives in flowing streams and rivers of the eastern and ...

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 ...

The region's salamander mussel is the only mussel in the world that uses a salamander ... As just one example of a Southeast waterway in peril, the Coosa River is the site of the greatest modern ...

Their classification is currently being revised. At 2 feet long and topping 4 pounds, hellbenders are the largest salamanders in North America. Their closest relatives are the giant salamanders of ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - The America Association of Zookeepers Chapter is hosting a fundraiser to shed some light on the conservation of salamanders. It’s called ‘Sweethearts for Salamanders ...