GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is urging visitors to stop stacking and moving rocks after an eastern hellbender was found crushed. The park shared that the crushed ...
A hidden wildlife camera placed beside a quiet forest stream captured incredible close-up footage of a rare black salamander carefully moving across wet river rocks. Its smooth, reflective skin ...
A rare lungless creature — speckled with yellow spots — breathes through its skin and lives in ancient rock faces of Appalachia in the southeastern U.S. It’s a “mascot of the mountains” and at risk of ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to decide whether the yellow-spotted woodland ...
The eastern hellbender is a rare giant salamander, and was recently spotted in Eastern Kentucky. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Monte McGregor No, that’s not a rock — it’s a rare ...