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Hellbender salamander with a long, flattened, wrinkled body and mottled brown, orange, and gray skin, shown against a white background.

February 20, 2023

Probing hellbender health

Understanding how hellbenders — large, fully aquatic salamanders — fight fungal pathogens and disease is important for protecting these unique stream predators; Vanderbilt researchers add new insights.

By Leigh MacMillan

Bright orange salamander with dark-ringed spots crawling across a rocky streambed.

March 8, 2021

Temperature, newts and a skin-eating fungus

Salamanders are more sensitive to a skin-eating fungus at colder temperatures, pointing to locations of North America where pathogen invasion is most likely.

By Leigh MacMillan