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🦎💦 Open wide! To catch their prey in swift-moving water, Japanese giant salamanders have huge mouths relative to their body size. For being such a large animal, their eyes are quite tiny, so they rely heavily on their olfactory senses to seek out their meal. . . . 🐟🦐 At the Reptile Discovery center, our salamanders receive frozen-thawed smelt, which are similar in size to loaches (a small fish native to Japan), as well as live earthworms and frozen-thawed herring and shrimp. | Smithsonian’s

980K views · 3.9K shares | Get a closer look at the biggest (and ugliest) salamander in the U.S.—the hellbender. Like many amphibians, these giants are dying off at alarming rates. We followed a team who are trying to reintroduce hellbender babies to the wild, before it's too late. Check out more from Joe's Big Idea! | NPR | Facebook