World's first captive breeding of Ozark hellbenders

Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

After a decade-long effort, conservation experts report that Ozark hellbenders have been bred in captivity -- a first! Endangered in the wild, this amphibian has fossil records dating back 15 million years. Today its numbers are rapidly declining.

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