The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander to its list of endangered species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal to do so was ...

Since 2006, the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute (CWI) has been studying and working to conserve the Eastern hellbender, a species of giant salamander native to the eastern United States.

Hellbenders may not be pretty to everyone, but these strictly aquatic salamanders are as interesting as their awesome name implies ... They’ve undergone drastic population declines across their range ...

(WKRN) — Eastern hellbenders could soon receive federal ... “Protecting these giant salamanders will give umbrella safeguards to thousands of other species that rely on clean rivers.” ...

Could the eastern hellbender salamander become the newest endangered species in Tennessee? It's possible. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering adding the eastern hellbender salamander to ...

SALAMANDERS IN PERIL: The eastern hellbender, native to southern Appalachian streams and rivers, is under consideration for endangered species designation after Tropical Storm Helene destroyed ...

NOW, THE EASTERN HELLBENDER IS THE THIRD LARGEST SALAMANDER IN THE WHOLE WORLD. WILDLIFE BIOLOGISTS SAY ALL SALAMANDERS ARE AN INDICATOR OF HIGH WATER QUALITY. AND THIS AREA OF APPALACHIA HAD SOME ...

This is a state-run nursery that breeds eastern hellbenders, and McGregor is an aquatic scientist. He points to a tank full of roughly footlong salamanders, and they're only teenagers. MONTE ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed protections for eastern hellbender salamanders under the Endangered Species Act. This proposal would extend safety to hellbenders from New York ...

Decades of decline for eastern hellbender The eastern hellbender, an aquatic salamander whose adults reach an average length of 20 inches - slightly less than two footballs laid end to end - has ...

Are you curious about eastern hellbender salamanders? Learn about their biology, ecology and the work that is being done in Indiana and beyond to restore the populations of this endangered species in ...