The largest salamander in the world in the Chinese Giant Salamander. It can grow to a length of 5 feet.
Salamanders are capable of regenerating lost limbs within in a few weeks, including tails and toes, allowing them to survive attacks from predators.
Some salamander species can be poisonous and some even have teeth.
Some salamanders have tongues up to 10 times as long as their bodies.
The oldest salamander species rubbed elbows with Jurassic dinosaurs. A 157-million-year-old salamander fossil discovered a few years ago in China is the oldest of its kind and places this ancient species as living with Jurassic dinosaurs. It is thought that salamanders diverged from other amphibians somewhere around 200 million years ago. Who knows what future fossil discoveries may reveal!
One of the most popular species of the salamander is the axolotl, and nowadays are oftenly being kept as pet.
