Case file · Cryptid
Trinity Alps giant salamander search
Stories since the 1920s told of salamanders up to eight feet long in remote lakes of the Trinity Alps. In 1960 a party of zoologists, and separately Texas millionaire Tom Slick, searched for them.
1960 CE · 40.95, -123.05 · status: legend
The account
The scientists caught only Pacific giant salamanders, the largest under a foot long. Herpetologist George S. Myers had speculated that a relative of the Chinese giant salamander might live there.
The sceptical view
No specimen has ever been found; the known Dicamptodon salamanders reach about 30 cm.