When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 ...

The salamander is known for living among the large, flat river rocks of Western North Carolina — and the broader southern ...

Without quick action, they’ll vanish forever.” These green-splotched salamanders live only in the Hickory Nut Gorge, a 14-mile-long gorge in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, which is 18 miles ...

These green-splotched salamanders live only in a single 14-mile-long gorge in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Scientists estimate there are only a few hundred of them left on Earth. “Without ...

Salamanders are the only terrestrial vertebrates that possess the remarkable ability to regenerate limbs or tails. The vast ...

for example — a rare salamander, and the largest amphibian in North America — whose critical habitat was devastated by Helene ...

Biologists and other experts are still struggling to reach areas of western North Carolina wrecked by storms to assess the ...

Helene interrupted the migration of more than 100 million birds crossing over Alabama, and triggered floods that swept thousands of North Carolina’s 30-inch-long hellbender salamanders to their ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

The Hurricanes’ game against the Dallas Stars on Tuesday, November 25 will air on FOX 50 at 7 p.m. The team’s 3 p.m. game on Friday, November 29 will be available on WRAL. “We’re excited to partner ...

Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander, and the Carolina northern flying squirrel — remains unclear after Helene, as experts struggle to reach damaged areas, Turner added. And amid North Carolina's ...