Jack's Giant Newt

Jack's Giant Newt is the world's largest species of newt, about the size of a sub-adult Japanese giant salamander. It resembles a terrestrial juvenile Eastern newt, but has a slightly builkier body and a slightly larger head. Unlike all other amphibians, this amphibian species now has that ability to lay hard-shelled eggs much like reptiles and birds, allowing this amphibian species to survive on land without ever going back to the water, not even to keep its skin moist, because its skin is no longer thin for an amphibian. Its favorite food are insects, fish, smaller amphibians, small reptiles, and small mammals. It is indigenous to Western USA areas, including California. Unlike other amphibian species, it does not have a tadpole stage, since it no longer lives in water.