Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By now, the story of Tropical Storm Helene is a tragically familiar one: the endless rain, the swollen rivers, the angry water ...

As one of the original “Hellbender Defenders,” I am ecstatic that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing to include the eastern hellbender under the Endangered Species Act. I was ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is helping to grow the population of the endangered eastern hellbender salamander. Hellbenders, North America's largest amphibian, are an indicator of good water quality ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - In a federal lawsuit filed this week, the Center for Biological Diversity is pushing the government to strengthen protections for a rare native of western North ...

More than 100 rare and endangered giant salamanders called hellbenders were released in Ohio this summer. Since eastern hellbenders, which can grow up to 2 feet, breathe entirely through their skin, ...

This summer in eastern Ohio, more than 100 giant salamanders were released into local streams. The animals, called hellbenders, had been raised in captivity and were finally ready to head back into ...

The release involved 116 juvenile eastern hellbenders as part of a collaborative effort to recover the species, which has faced dramatic declines due to habitat loss, pollution, and sedimentation.

With wrinkly skin that comes in various shades of brown, eastern hellbenders aren’t easy to spot. These giant salamanders, which average 20 inches in length, spend most of their lives nearly invisible ...

But humans aren’t the only species whose communities were ravaged by the floodwaters. Helene devastated some of the few remaining healthy populations of an iconic Appalachian species — the eastern ...