JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site have discovered the remains of a giant salamander that once called prehistoric Appalachia home. According to a news release from East ...

Releasing Chinese giant salamanders back into the wild sounds like a good idea, but it's causing problems for the salamanders and for our understanding of what a species even is. Do you need a pin? We ...

You never forget your first time seeing a giant salamander, according to Andy Hill. He was a teenager, standing thigh-high in the Watauga River outside Boone, North Carolina, casting a line on an ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — On Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the eastern hellbender, a type of giant salamander in Tennessee and other nearby states, as an endangered ...

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, ...