It’s a snaaaaaake ---what has --- leeeegggggggsssss!

Some call it hellbender, some call it snot otter, WT calls it hope

Ohio Department of Natural Resources, with the Ohio State University and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency claim to have found endangered amphibian "Cryptobranchus alleganiensis" in the Upper Ohio River Tributaries, Little Beaver Creek watershed last week.
This is a tremendous find to be confirmed: two live-and-well giant salamanders at ground zero of the toxic chemical release
last month at East Palestine.
Ohio Emergency Management Agency March 17 update includes a photo of a mature adult estimated at seven years of age, which was found with a juvenile.  The update states the amphibians have been released back to their habitat in North Fork of Little Beaver Creek.
 

North America’s largest salamander has been known to live over sixty years, spending the entire time underwater in the fast-moving creeks and streams of the eastern USA, from New York to Georgia. While the creature technically does have lungs, it breathes through delicate structures in the folds of its skin, making it sensitive to dissolved oxygen levels and toxins.
For its shocking appearance this tender flower of a creature is a very hopeful sign about water quality. 

WT Media Group will track, confirm and report future sightings, an indicator there may still be hope for clean water, even in Ohio!