Wild sightings of California giant salamanders are increasingly uncommon. So when a park ranger spotted one while monitoring streams in a remote forest in September 2025, the discovery thrilled ...
A park ranger patrolling remote streams in California recently stumbled onto something most people will never see in their lifetime: a California giant salamander, one of the largest amphibians on the ...
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Liège on a large population of Japanese giant salamanders—one of the largest amphibians in the world—reveals that above a certain size, a ...
At first, they looked like fish. The cluster of one-inch-long, swimming creatures was tucked beneath rocks in frigid creek water. As National Park Service fisheries biologist Michael Reichmuth ...