The discovery also closes an important gap in the known history of a very ancient amphibian family.

The axolotl, a salamander known for its permanent grin, does more than regrow lost legs. Laboratory injury models show it can ...

Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived around 3.5 million years ago in a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild sightings of California giant salamanders are increasingly uncommon. So when a park ranger spotted one while monitoring ...

The Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, weighing upwards of 140 pounds and growing to a length of more than 5.9 feet Petr Hamerník - Zoo Praha via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

India, July 20 -- Scientists have identified a previously unknown giant salamander species from fossil bones discovered ...

Aneides vagrans, also called the wandering salamander, is an elusive critter. Its natural habitat is the canopy of California's redwood trees, the world's tallest trees, making it tough to observe.

In the rivers of China and Japan dwells a salamander so huge that it positively dwarfs its American cousin, the massive 2.5-foot "snot otter" (which, as it happens, is what they called me in high ...