Here we have the big salamander monsters we saw in the gameplay footage yesterday.

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Background: I craft my master plans at a telepathic light speed that shrivels ordinary mortal brains like a salamander in a bouncy chair of hot lava.

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Ms. HOLIDAY: (Singing) And that's the spot called Salamander Park...

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It appears likely now that studies of the Japanese giant salamander can expand the number of chytrid-fighting bacteria known to science, and so extend the options for developing treatments for an infection that currently cannot be controlled in the wild.

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