Giant Chinese salamander is at least 5 species, all facing threat of extinction: studies

Photo taken on July 21, 2012 shows Che Jing, researcher of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, holding a Chinese giant salamander. Chinese scientists found that the critically endangered Chinese giant salamander, the world's largest amphibian, isn't one species, but five and possibly as many as eight. (Xinhua/Kunming Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences)