An artificially propagated giant salamander cub is put into the Wanlu Reservoir, the largest of its kind in south China's Guangdong Province, on September 16. A total of 250 such giant salamander cubs were set free to the reservoir Tuesday.

Giant salamanders, which survived from the age of dinosaurs, have been mainly living in China and have been put under the list of state second level protection in the country.

(Xinhua News Agency September 18, 2003)