The city of Boone has put a giant mural of the eastern hellbender downtown and its residents often imbibe a local Hazy IPA named after the amphibian ...

(WGHP) — Officials with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission are asking the public to be on the lookout for any hellbender or mudpuppy salamanders. Both types of aquatic salamanders ...

The salamander is known for living among the large, flat river rocks of Western North Carolina — and the broader southern Appalachian region — and can grow up to two feet, making it the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last Thursday announced its plan to add the eastern hellbender salamander to the nation’s list of endangered species in a victory for environmental groups that ...

(WGHP) — Meet the tiger salamander. These large amphibians are poisonous but not a danger to humans as long as you give them their space. However, quite a few smaller critters should be afraid ...

The salamander is known for living among the large, flat river rocks of Western North Carolina — and the broader southern Appalachian region — and can grow up to two feet, making it the ...

A Hickory Nut Gorge green salamander rests on a log. JJ Apodaca. When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 inches ...

Hellbender salamanders call Tennessee and 14 other states in the United ... The "healthiest" of eastern hellbender salamander habitats was considered to be in North Carolina and Tennessee, ...

Atley Cannon, 9, finds an endangered hellbender salamander in a puddle in front of his uncle's home in Cane River, N.C. on Oct. 2, 2024 after remnants of Hurricane Helene brought record rainfall ...

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources commission has received multiple reports of dead or washed up eastern hellbenders after Helene. Rare hellbender salamander in Western NC faces calamity from ...