As locals banded together to recover, images of dead hellbender salamanders surfaced on social media, leaving many wondering about the hurricane’s impact on these iconic creatures. Hurricane ...

On Wednesday, the USFWS considered 10 species to move to the final review to become protected under the Endangered Species Act; the hellbender was the only species that was denied. The yellow-spotted ...

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 eastern hellbender is a large, fully aquatic salamander that requires cool, well-oxygenated rivers and streams. Because they require high-quality water and habitat, they are thought to be ...

Dubbed the Hellbender RV Campground after Ohio's endangered Hellbender salamanders, the 75-acre facility is located at the intersection of State Route 146 and Zion Ridge Road near Cumberland.

The Ozark hellbender is a subspecies of hellbender native to streams ... We won't give up until North America's largest salamander has the protection this species needs.

Since 2006, the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute (CWI) has been studying and working to conserve the Eastern hellbender, a species of giant salamander native to the eastern United States.

WINTERSVILLE — Students in the natural resources pathway at Indian Creek High School had a chance to update state leaders and ...

Mudpuppies have been introduced into many other lakes by people using them as a fish bait. An even larger species is the hellbender, a big fleshy salamander of river bottoms. In New York, only a few ...

But maybe the biggest beneficiary will be a strange, ancient creature known as the eastern hellbender salamander. Sometimes called a snot otter or Allegheny alligator, it’s North America’s ...

The eastern hellbender, one of the largest salamanders in the world, is listed as “special concern” at the state level. Conservationists believe they also warrant protection on a federal level.