The flood tore through in the middle of hellbender breeding season, blowing away nests full of eggs. Many adults were either swept along with the debris or forced to seek refuge in developed areas ...

“We have not even wrapped our brains around what we’re dealing with yet.” The flood tore through in the middle of hellbender ...

The Eastern hellbender, a slimy, mud-colored creature that ranks as Indiana’s and the nation's largest salamander, may be listed federally as an endangered species. Nicknamed the “snot otter ...

The flood tore through in the middle of hellbender breeding season, blowing away nests full of eggs. Many adults were either swept along with the debris or forced to seek refuge in developed areas ...

“We have not even wrapped our brains around what we’re dealing with yet.” The flood tore through in the middle of hellbender breeding season, blowing away nests full of eggs. Many adults were either ...

“And it's really hard to find that out because their lifespan is so long that you can have a hellbender detected in a stream for multiple decades, but it may be the same individual ...