A hungry predator—perhaps a spider or bird or snake—ripped off its left front leg, leaving the stub of a bone jutting from its side. The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen ...

For millennia, their fossilized bones remained hidden inside layers ... which were the ancestors of today’s salamanders, frogs and toads. Researchers think B. bakeri lived in freshwater lakes ...

Hellbenders are real, but we're not talking about those amphibians. Ohio is home to many salamander species, including the red-backed salamander. It was recently found wriggling around at the ...