Good intentions are driving the Chinese giant salamander’s “hidden extinction”

Good intentions are driving the Chinese giant salamander’s “hidden extinction”

The road to hell—and species extinction—is paved with good intentions. Efforts to conserve the world’s largest amphibian, the Chinese giant salamander, are turning out to be misguided, according to zoologists. A May 21 study in the journal Cell reveals that this “living fossil,” thought to have remained largely unchanged for 170 million years, is being…