A Japanese giant salamander has died at the National Zoo in Washington. Zoo keepers said the salamander was a female and 25 years old.

Japanese giant salamanders might not be the only devoted amphibious dads. Their relatives, the hellbender and the Chinese giant salamander, have similar mating systems.

Currently, most salamanders found in the wild are hybrids. Purebred Japanese giant salamanders have been branded a "special national treasure" by the Japanese government.

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River infrastructure is causing the salamander's decline. To stop Japan from losing this rare species, conservationists are calling for an alternative vision of rural development.

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 ...

Researchers have finally pieced together the skull of an ancient salamander ancestor that has been stuck inside a rock for around 50 years.

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly complete skull of an enormous ancient salamander-like creature in a quarry ...

But just last year, a team of researchers led by Koichi Goka from Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies published research showing that certain strains of chytrid were present on ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--Home to Kyushu’s only natural habitat of the Japanese giant salamander, officials here are offering the public a real-life 3-D look at the elusive amphibian species.

Scientists have revealed fossils of a giant salamander-like beast with sharp fangs that ruled waters before the first dinosaurs arrived.