Sentences with phrase «terrestrial salamanders»

Terrestrial salamanders are fossorial, hiding under things and almost never showing a hint of natural behavior unless disturbed.

The United States is home to many terrestrial salamanders, most notably tigers, spotted and marbled (again, all of the Ambystoma genus) and these should all once more enter the marketplace.

Skin Microbiomes of California Terrestrial Salamanders Are Influenced by Habitat More Than Host Phylogeny — Alicia K. Bird — Frontiers in Microbiology

The pond is a documented breeding area for the eastern tiger salamander, one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States and a species on the state's endangered list.

Not exact matches

A team of Danish researchers from Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark therefore studied the hearing of lungfish and salamanders, which have an ear structure that is comparable to that of different kinds of early terrestrial vertebrates.

Surprisingly, the measurements showed that not only the terrestrial adult salamanders, but also the fully aquatic juvenile salamanders — and even the lungfish, which are completely maladapted to aerial hearing — were able to detect airborne sound despite not having a tympanic middle ear.

Although other salamanders metamorphose into terrestrial creatures, axolotls hold on to their feathery gills and stay in the water for their entire lives.

Research conducted by Sandy Kawano and Richard Blob at Clemson University compared terrestrial locomotion in tiger salamanders and mudskipper fish, which have similar characteristics to early tetrapod ancestors.

Her new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology investigates the stresses experienced by the limb bones of tiger salamanders during terrestrial locomotion.

I do hope that someday the international ban might be lifted, both because I fear for the wellbeing of wild salamanders around the planet and because my favorites are two European animals: the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), a terrestrial animal of vivid black and yellow coloration and an outgoing temperament, and the crested newt (Triturus cristatus), an aquatic newt in which the males develop a spectacular Godzilla - like crest when in breeding mode.

Salamanders A broad family, the salamanders range from the common fish tank denizens like firebellied and eastern newts to the gorgeous terrestrial tiger and fire salamanders, to the completely aquatic tiger, relatives to the axolotls, to the giant and fearsome looking hSalamanders A broad family, the salamanders range from the common fish tank denizens like firebellied and eastern newts to the gorgeous terrestrial tiger and fire salamanders, to the completely aquatic tiger, relatives to the axolotls, to the giant and fearsome looking hsalamanders range from the common fish tank denizens like firebellied and eastern newts to the gorgeous terrestrial tiger and fire salamanders, to the completely aquatic tiger, relatives to the axolotls, to the giant and fearsome looking hsalamanders, to the completely aquatic tiger, relatives to the axolotls, to the giant and fearsome looking hellbenders.

Recently discovered on an expedition through Ecuador by Conservation International, the salamander belongs to the Bolitoglossa family, and yes, it looks a lot like everyone's favorite Extra Terrestrial.