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 -- ...

Thomas More University is researching the endangered 'snot otters' with an eye toward helping them make a comeback.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent study by researchers at Virginia Tech looked at the giant salamanders known as “hellbenders.” Scientists wanted to understand why hellbender population has been in decline in recent decades.

I have been asked some variation of this question multiple times over the past several years. Sometimes the “hellbender” is found in a barn, on a basement floor, crawling across a driveway, or ...