Hellbender Salamander
Everything about the hellbender: the largest salamander in North America. Size, cold-stream habitat, cutaneous respiration, crayfish diet, male nest guarding, 55-year lifespan, and the Ozark subspecies conservation crisis.
May 2025
March 2025
Chinese Giant Salamander
Everything about the Chinese giant salamander: the largest amphibian on Earth, its infant-like cries, 170-million-year lineage, cutaneous respiration, farmed hybrid crisis, and the 2018 discovery that it is actually at least five cryptic species -- most already lost from the wild.