RALEIGH — There are many critters designated by law to symbolize North Carolina. For example ... mammal (eastern gray ...

North Carolina driver licenses are getting ... State border outline. A marbled salamander. A lighthouse. The back of the card will include the Colonial Spanish mustang grazing on an N.C. beach.

Without quick action, they’ll vanish forever.” These green-splotched salamanders live only in the Hickory Nut Gorge, a 14-mile-long gorge in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, which is 18 miles ...

“To keep holding on, they urgently need the Fish and Wildlife Service to act.” These green-splotched salamanders live only in a 14-mile-long gorge in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Scientists ...

The giant salamanders lost more than three-fourths of their population before Hurricane Helene, which destroyed river habitat.

There are many critters designated by law to symbolize North Carolina. For example, we have an official state bird (red cardinal); reptile (Eastern box turtle); horse (Colonial Spanish mustang); mollu ...