SASAYAMA, Japan — It’s big and slimy, with bulbous fingertips and a fat, flipper-like tail. It hides under rocks during the day and comes out to feed at night, sucking anything that passes into its ...

A pair of Japanese giant salamanders at the Honolulu Zoo are making history — and babies. The salamanders, endemic to Japan and considered a national treasure there, have — for the first time outside ...

The Center for Conservation and Research at San Antonio Zoo has been researching ways to reconnect populations of Japanese giant salamanders that have been separated by dams that have been built along ...

The Honolulu Zoo is hoping its Japanese giant salamanders will successfully breed later this year. Back in September, the salamanders laid eggs, but they didn’t develop after a few months like they ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Meet one of our Japanese giant salamanders, Hiro, and Reptile Discovery Center keeper Kyle Miller in this virtual animal demo! . . . People think ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu Zoo is celebrating some baby news. Or, soon-to-be babies — if they actually hatch. The facility said that a Japanese giant salamander at the zoo has laid eggs ...

The next time you’re at the Honolulu zoo, you’ll have a new exhibit to check out! Four Japanese giant salamanders have just arrived. They came from a sister zoo in Hiroshima, Japan called Asa Zoo.

Animals are incredibly adaptable creatures that have developed a variety of survival mechanisms throughout their evolution.

An adventure through Japan’s rivers in pursuit of one of its largest amphibians. Detective says Melissa Perez was not close to officers when they fired at her 'My hopes are dashed': Illegal Indian ...

1. To prevent the invasion of exotic species causing a decline in an endangered endemic species, it is important to determine the distribution of both species at an early stage, when the density of ...