The Chinese giant salamander is the world’s largest amphibian, reaching lengths of more than 1.8m. They have been revered in Chinese culture for thousands of years, but overexploitation for the luxury ...

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 ...

Salamanders are almost entirely confined to the holarctic - the ecozone including the habitats of the northern continents, as well as a small part of North Africa north of the Sahara. This means that ...