Record-breaking cave salamander
Researchers from the University of Tennessee (UT) at Knoxville have discovered the largest individual cave salamander found in North America, in the guise of a 23.6cm (9.3in) specimen of the Berry Cave salamander."The record represents the largest individual within the genus Gyrinophilus, the largest body size of any cave-obligate salamander and the largest salamander within the Plethodontidae family in the United States," says Nicholas Gladstone, a graduate student in UT’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, who made the discovery.