Growing up to 5 feet long, the Japanese giant salamander is among the largest amphibians living today. Now it's got a new ...

Three bones unearthed in Japan have revealed a lost giant salamander species that prowled ancient wetlands 3.5 million years ...

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 ...

In the late 1990s in the Ajimu region of Japan's Oita Prefecture, researchers discovered three fossilized vertebrae belonging ...

Move over, Jurassic Park - nature just delivered a real-life blast from the past. A park ranger working in California's remote forests stumbled upon an enormous California giant salamander while ...

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

Modern giant salamanders live only in water, but their earliest, largest known ancestor, which had a burly head and lengthy limbs to boot, may have ventured onto land, researchers say. Subscribe to ...

River dams have long been blamed for disrupting the movements of fish, and not just the marine species; they can also cause ...

KYOTO, Japan – In Japanese rivers, if you’re very lucky, you might find unusual amphibians that grow up to 5 feet long and look like strange cartoon dinosaurs. They are giant salamanders. “Salamanders ...

You never forget your first time seeing a giant salamander, according to Andy Hill. He was a teenager, standing thigh-high in the Watauga River outside Boone, North Carolina, casting a line on an ...