Wednesday, June 8, 2011

American Hellbender

Sounds like Mad Max-style movie, right?

Wrong.  It's a salamander.  A HUGE salamander.  We saw one while we were frolicking in a mountain stream over Memorial Day weekend and we caught it on video.  It took me this long to identify what it was.  This sucker crawled over Kurt's foot, over my Dad's foot, and went on its merry way.  It was over a foot long. 






Here's the wikipedia link for all you nerds like me who are interested in this funky creature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbender

1 comment:

ouida said...

dear lord. this thing is insane. i would have picked it up for sure. i had no idea such things existed. how cool!! are you sure it wasn't a mudpuppy? did you count the toes?