The giant salamanders lost more than three-fourths of their population before Hurricane Helene, which destroyed river habitat ...

A giant salamander typically found in central Appalachia called the hellbender is on the way to being endangered. The bizarre ...

Conservationists work to transplant protected eastern hellbenders, a large salamander species, ahead of dam removal on the Watauga River.

Interviews for this story took place before Tropical Storm Helene impacted rivers. “What I have seen in the Watauga River is ...

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 ...

Officials announced a proposal to list the eastern hellbender as an endangered species as populations in U.S. plummet.

After the eastern hellbender was devastated by Tropical Storm Helene, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service has proposed to ...

A hellbender but give it an 80s department store ... and their closest relatives are the giant salamanders in Japan and China that can top 4 and 5 feet in length. But the stream-scale leviathans ...

While a slimy species of giant salamander continues disappearing from mountain streams, conservationists hope endangered species protections can help the Eastern hellbender turn the tide toward ...