Will China's Super Rich Eat the Chinese Giant Salamander Into Extinction? The Chinese giant salamander looks like a creature out of a fairy tale. It’s the world’s largest amphibian. Given the chance, it can live for a half-century and grow to be more than six feet long and 130 pounds. But it sounds like and even resembles a newborn baby. Local people call them wawa yu, or crying baby fish, and in some areas used to regard them as river spirits.
July 29, 2013 - Takepart.com via Yahoo! News
What's Swimming In The River? Just Look For DNA Biologists have discovered they can track hard-to-see species in streams, ponds and even the ocean by sampling the water for DNA. Scientists say the technique is an important conservation tool: So far, it's been used to track declining giant salamanders and even locate a rare whale.
July 25, 2013 - NPR