The Arctic salamander, also known as the water snake, can be called a "living fossil". It is an ancient rare animal with an evolutionary history of 230 million years. In April 2022, photography enthusiasts from Dongfanghong Forestry Bureau Co., Ltd. found two relatively rare Arctic salaman...
The Xinjiang giant salamander is commonly known as the giant salamander or the water four-legged snake. It belongs to the class of amphibians, the order of caudate, the suborder of Cryptobrachiidae, and the family of Hynobiidae. It is an ancient rare animal that developed in the same era as dinosaur...
The Jilin clawed salamander (scientific name Onychodactylus zhangyapingi) is an animal of the genus Onychodactylus of the family Hynobiidae in the order Caudata. It has a slender body, smooth skin, and a black and yellow marble pattern on its back. It has an elongated head with a rounded snout, two...
Liaoning clawed salamander is endemic to China. It is found in densely vegetated mountainous areas at an altitude of about 600m. It often lives near the source of streams or springs with cool water and many stones. It comes out of hibernation in early April and lives on land, but not far from the wa...
Puxiong Prosaurus is a tailed amphibian of the family Hynantheidae and genus Prosaurus. In 1965, scholars from the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collected specimen No. 1 of Prosaurus in an abandoned cellar for storing potatoes beside a stream at an altitude of 2,900 mete...
The Maoershan Small Salamander lives in the swamps and surrounding areas of the mountainous areas with an altitude of 1978 to 2015 meters. The vegetation nearby is mainly southern hemlock and mountaintop dwarf forests. It likes to eat a lot of small invertebrate aquatic organisms, such as earthworms...
The Guabangshan Small Salamander lives in Guabangshan in Qiyang, Hunan. The highest peak of the mountain is 788 meters above sea level. Below 400 meters above sea level is the rice field area, and a few rice fields can reach about 600 meters. The salamander mainly lives in small mountain ponds, swam...
The Chinese salamander (scientific name: Hynobius chinensis) is an animal of the Hynobiidae family and the genus Hynobius. It is an ancient species dating back 300 million years and developed in the same era as dinosaurs. In 1889, a foreigner named Günther first discovered it in Xuanchang, Hubei, a...
Anji Hynobius amjiensis is an amphibian of the Hynobiidae family and Hynobius genus, and is endemic to China.Anji Hynobius amjiensis has very strict requirements for habitat and water. This species lives in the humus layer under the peat moss in the swamp and enters the puddle during the spawning se...
The dragon-horned toad hides under the rocks or in the grass by the stream during the day. At night, the male toads often make chirping sounds on the rocks by the stream. They stop chirping under the electric light and do not escape. The tadpoles live in the streams with cool water quality, and ofte...
The appearance of Liangbei toothed toad is similar to that of Oreolalax major, but the hind limbs of Liangbei toothed toad are shorter, the tibia is less than half of the body length, and the left and right heels just meet; there are no spots on the ventral surface. The lip and tooth pattern of tadp...
The golden-crowned toothed toad is flat and narrow, with a head that is almost equal in length and width. It lives in the top streams and their vicinity at an altitude of 2500-3050 meters in the mountains.The adult toads live on land. The breeding season is from the end of May to June. During the da...
The dragon-toothed toad is an amphibious wild animal of the Anura order and the Ceratophoridae family. It lives in the spring streams of high mountains at an altitude of 3120-3750m or under stones or mud pits in the water ponds of swamps.The toad moves slowly and lays eggs on the bottom of the water...
Muli Toothed Toad is an amphibian of the genus Toothed Toad, with a brown body and a grayish-white belly. It is endemic to China and is distributed in Sichuan (Muli).During the day, adult toads are mostly in and around gentle mountain streams with rich vegetation, generally living in the stream or u...
Pingwu Toothed Toad is an amphibian of the genus Toothed Toad of the family Spadefoot Toad, and is endemic to China.Adult toads are mostly found in small mountain streams with dense vegetation and nearby forests. During the day, they often hide under rocks in the stream or in earth holes on the shor...
Pingwu Toothed Toad is an amphibian of the genus Toothed Toad of the family Spadefoot Toad, and is endemic to China.Adult toads are mostly found in small mountain streams with dense vegetation and nearby forests. During the day, they often hide under rocks in the stream or in earth holes on the shor...
The name of the Ailao Bearded Toad comes from Ailao Mountain, because it was first discovered in Ailao Mountain in Yunnan in the 1980s; however, it can also be found in the nearby Wuliang Mountain. In Wuliang Mountain, it is also called "Ang" because of its "Ang, Ang" sound.The A...
The Emei Bearded Toad is an amphibian of the family Ceratopus and the genus Pseudocercidae. It lives near mountain streams with lush vegetation at an altitude of 700-1700 meters. Adult toads live on land in the grass on the hillside, are not good at jumping, and crawl slowly. Tadpoles mostly move be...
The Leishan mustache is an amphibian of the family Ceratopsidae and the genus Pseudomonas. The body is stout. The head is flat and the width of the head is greater than the length of the head. The skin is smooth, loose and wrinkled, and there is a network of skin ridges composed of moles on the back...
The original bearded toad is an amphibian in southern China. It is a species endemic to China. Compared with other toads, the tadpole period of the bearded toad is long, it is easily eaten by natural enemies, and the survival rate is low, so the original bearded toad is a rare animal in the world. D...