The Chinese Giant salamander

  The Chinese Giant Salamander

They have very poor eyesight, to observe their prey, they sense the vibrations in the water.They spend their entire lives under water, but don’t have gills.  They absorb oxygen through their skin.At breeding time, the females lay between 400 to 500 eggs which the males look after until they hatch. They used to be common, but are now critically endangered expected to habitat loss and excessive hunting.In 1726 a Swiss physician described a fossil of a Chinese giant salamander and assumed that it was the fossil of a human being that survived the Great Flood, naming it Homo diluvii testis (witness of the Great Flood