My Giant Salamander Collection

Check out the largest salamanders in the world. Here we have a Giant Pacific Salamander, a Hellbender, and a Giant Japanese Salamander.

The Giant Japanese Salamander is one of the largest in the world - close to the Giant Chinese Salamander in size.

Specimen use made possible by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

[tst]

I love the face of the Japanese one, he was just chilling

[zachkielb]

I have a request! I'm a recreational fisherman from the northeast and have a fascination with northern Pike, pickerel and Muskellunge.
Can you please show a deep dive on one of them especially their teeth and skull! I would appreciate that so much!

[eliegbert]

Note how the hellbender has large folds of skin. This is because this salamander does not have gills and absorbs oxygen via osmosis through its epidermis. So more skin= better oxygenation

[VictorDiaz-nsmd]

Just wanted you to know that what you’re doing here is extremely appreciated. We’ve all learned a lot from your videos and I hope your channel continues to prosper. ✊

[TakoyakiStore]

I know the Hellbender gets a lot of the press for being the heaviest amphibian in North America but the Greater Siren and the Two-Toed Amphiuma get longer (40" max I believe). I think outside of the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders only some caecilians get comparable in length.

[gaogeren]

feels like an action figure unboxing for some reason, and I love it

[matteoberti]

Will you start making longer videos? I’d LOVE to see a one hour video about a specific topic! Love your videos, you always cheer me up. Greetings from Italy ❤

[GreatAukEntertainment]

This is officially my favorite video on YouTube, love giant salamanders

[brittyvegas]

They are all beautiful I absolutely love salamanders... thanks for sharing them with us

[TheProtoInvasion]

Japanese salamander: am big
Metoposaurus hiding 100s of millions of years ago: 🗿

[chemicalwarfare]

Amazing how you can smell the preserved animals through the screen

[skrt]

Bro holding that thing up like it’s his new born baby 😂💀

[JadenNeko]

This was unsuspecting cute! The salamanders looking so adorable and you being precious and respectful of the specimen. Even your face from 6.04 min on is full of awe! So cute! Keep up the good work bruv!

[midditt]

This is so cool, I’m studying salamander osteology at the moment for my Masters project at uni and I work with CT scans from specimens like this to produce 3D models of their skeletons. Andrias japonicus is such a pain as its so big that the file sizes are huge but gosh darn they’re so cool. The largest living amphibians. Their skeletal anatomy is also quite strikingly different from other salamanders.

[noscopedemon]

I love the salamander in the “Wast” coast

[ZeFroznne]

A while back I did this construction course on heat/frost insulating and our symbol is the fire salamander, always loved them and when I got all my awards and paperwork/patches & stickers, I really started to learn more about them. Truly fascinating, great video! Keep up the good work! Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season! Take care all!

[andreasheeb]

Did you know:
The word salamander comes from greek and means "fire lizard"
This is because the ancient greeks believed that the yellow spotted fire salamander (salamandra samalandra) could live in fire.
The reason for this belief is that the fire salamander lives under logs and in dead wood throughout europe. Now when they used to burn wood, those salamanders would seemingli "crawl right out of the fire"

[TheToneBender]

That's still a relatively small version of the Japanese salamander, I believe.

[jpqhgvm]

This is a question I’ve been willing to ask for a long time, do you preserve cats, dogs, and plants? Or is it just rare animals?

[Smugy_]

I would love seeing your cutest specimens in a video! Love you content btw, and congrats on 800k!