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 ...

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 ...

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is asking the public to report sightings of giant salamanders called hellbenders, also known as water dogs or snot otters for their slimy secretions.

Hellbender salamanders call Tennessee and 14 other states in the United States home, including Alabama, Kentucky, and Georgia ...

The giant salamander called the hellbender has been put on a list of species that may soon be considered endangered. Now, when fully grown, it takes two hands to just even hold one. The hellbender, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — On Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the eastern hellbender, a type of giant salamander in Tennessee and other nearby states, as an ...