--- "Crail, Todd" <tcrail_at_northshores.com> wrote:
> "SOUS? Salamanders of Unusual Size? I don't think
> they exist.
> AHGHHGHHGHHG!" :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Traci Mount
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 3:58 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: NANFA-- Sally Manders :)
>
>
> EARLY 1800S: SCIPPO CREEK, OHIO
> The first report of what may be a giant mudpuppy
> comes from Scippo Creek in
> Ohio (a tributary of the Scioto River). In the
> early 1800s, settlers there
> saw a number of animals, measuring between 6 and 7
> feet in length, that were
> pink in color. These pink, water-dwelling lizards
> had moose-like horns.
> Sometime around 1820, a drought struck the area,
> drying up numerous streams
> and creating brush fires which destroyed the local
> ecology even further. It
> is generally believed that the animals, whatever
> they were, were wiped out
> in these two disasters.
>
>
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/siren/552/noram_mudpuppy.html
>
>
> They have been seen in other places up to 1975, I
> think I'll go find one. (I
> want one)
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=====
Bill Hoppe
Yellville Arkansas
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