Sentences with phrase «as salamander»

Life Force, also known as Salamander, is actually an entry in the Gradius series, which started with the game Scramble — confusing, I know.

Players challenge the aggressions from the Bacterian special force known as Salamander.

Our Resort is surrounded by an array of restaurants, café's and shops as well as the Salamander Bay Shopping Centre and several local activities.

Shortly after their meeting, Lucy is abducted by Bora of Prominence, who was posing as Salamander of Fairy Tail, to be sold as a slave.

Ultimately, Badylak believes that ECM will lead to therapies that regrow amputated human arms and legs, much as salamanders and starfish regenerate limbs, although he realizes that this may not happen in his lifetime.

Animals such as salamanders and planaria regenerate tissues by rekindling genetic mechanisms that guide the patterning of body structures during embryonic development.

Regeneration pros such as salamanders heal wounds methodically and produce pristine tissue.

The earthworms eat away at the puffy duff layer blanketing the forest floor, where species such as salamanders and ovenbirds live, Resner reported Sunday (Oct. 27) at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.

Some amphibians — such as salamanders — are famous for their superhero - like ability to regenerate heart, brain, spinal cord, tail and even whole limb tissue throughout their life.

Not exact matches

She founded Salamander Hotels and Resorts, a hospitality company, as well as the Middleburg Film Festival, which premiered La La Land last year.

We would have evolved as we have to question the puff the magic out of salamander spiel.

Some amphibians (axolotl salamanders) have the capacity to regenerate highly complex structures such as limbs, jaws, tail, spinal cord, or eyes throughout their lives.

Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.

Join us for a night of costumed characters and lantern - lit trails as we celebrate the annual spring migration of salamanders and tree frogs back to the vernal pools where they were born.

Threading boundaries between and through centres of population on the pretext of ensuring fairness is also a great way to cheat for your own benefit — a practice known as gerrymandering, after a 19th - century governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who created an electoral division whose shape reminded a local newspaper editor of a salamander.

Fragmented habitat will make it hard for frogs and salamanders to move to new homes as the climate changes

It's hardly unique in that regard: plenty of animals can endure being frozen, including many insects but also a few reptiles and amphibians such as the Siberian salamander.

The spring is probably tendonlike collagen tissue, and the latch that releases it is most likely another muscle, because the salamanders can vary the speed and distance as they snap at their prey.

Using data from high - speed video recordings of 96 feedings, the researchers measured the speed of the salamanders» tongue thrusts as the animals ate crickets, termites, and other bugs.

Because of their vulnerability, frogs and salamanders are frequently the first animals to succumb to environmental degradation, and thus are now looked upon as the ecological equivalent of the proverbial canary in the mine shaft.

The scientific name of the long - limbed salamander, Nyctanolis pernix, translates as «night anole,» because this nocturnal salamander runs and leaps more like an anolis lizard than a salamander.

As an undergrad at Kenyon College in Ohio in the 1950s, Spievack had performed amputations on salamanders and studied the way the creatures regenerated their limbs.

Other fun facts: The United States has a wider array of ecological regions, such as tundra and desert, than any other country, and the world's richest collections of freshwater mussels and salamanders.

Salamanders and newts take this approach to heal and rebuild a severed limb, as do zebrafish to mend clipped fins.

The 7 months represent a record for frozen vertebrates, and while Siberian salamanders have lived through -30 °C temperatures for shorter durations, those salamanders did not have as good a survival rate as the wood frogs.

Since the fungal disease has initially been limited to a small area, an attempt is being made to prevent it from spreading further: The European Union has launched a research project to create the scientific basis for the control of the «devourer of salamanders» as quickly as possible.

«We found no evidence that climbing allows these salamanders to more fully exploit available food resources, which instead suggests that other mechanisms, such as competition or predator avoidance, might be important influences on salamander populations,» said Connette.

Once the «devourer of salamanders» arrives, its epidemiological properties as a «perfect» pathogen make it a deadly enemy: Infection experiments demonstrate that salamanders are not able to build up a resistance to the pathogen.

When they do emerge, salamanders can be spotted not only on forest floors but also up in trees and on other vegetation, oftentimes climbing as high as 8 feet up.

When the species was first seen and collected in 1909, its range was loosely described as being «between Pamir and Samarkand,» which means the salamander could be living in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, or Uzbekistan.

A salamander - killing fungus first described in 2013 looks as if it originated in Asia and is hitchhiking around the world in the pet trade.

«Salamanders being moved around as bait are functioning like Typhoid Mary,» Collins says.

«We were able to show salamander - like regenerative capacities in both — fossil groups that develop their limbs like the majority of modern four - legged vertebrates as well in groups with the reversed pattern of limb development seen in modern salamanders,» said Dr. Jennifer Olori of State University of New York at Oswego, co-author on the study.

He is standing over a salamander tank on a traditional Xochimilco farm plot, or chinampa, that is used as an educational facility for tourists.

Successful reintroductions, such as those of the pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) in Britain or the hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) in the United States, require managing the ecosystem as a whole and working with the community.

When these animals began to die as well, Spitzen - van der Sluijs rushed them here, about 2 hours away, where Martel and Pasmans cultured a fungus from a salamander clinging to life.

Some animals, such as the axolotl salamander, can regrow new body parts in a process that involves the generation of new cells.

Accidentally introduced from Asia, the fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) sickens or kills several amphibian species with large ranges in Europe, such as the fire salamander (left), so it will likely spread across the continent.

The animals developed the symptoms seen in the first sick salamander, and all died a few days later, as they reported in 2013 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Salamanders are particularly good organisms for studying how locomotion onto land evolved, as their anatomy and ecology is similar to the earliest tetrapods.

The results showed that that mudskippers» pectoral fins experience more medial forces than the limbs of salamanders, and that the forelimbs could have a played a similar weight - bearing role as the hind limbs.

«Our lab works to identify salamanders as an influential part of the forest ecosystem and food chain,» said Ray Semlitsch, Curators Professor of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science at MU.

As with the lungfish, the salamanders» lungs vibrated in a frequency range that they were able to hear.

Scientists believe that acknowledging salamanders as one of the main food sources in forest ecosystems could help drive conservation efforts and forest management.

The mechanics of bone loading in the salamanders were tested in a variety of ways, including filming the salamanders as they walked across a custom - built platform that measured forces on the limb bones.

He ponders nighttime oddities of nature, such as the Texas blind salamander, a cave - dwelling semitranslucent amphibian that has no need for night vision — a trait that it apparently shares with about 40 percent of Americans, who, being bombarded with light pollution, never use theirs.

Such a sudden and rapid depletion of salamander species, especially ones with dense populations such as the eastern newt, could have «cascading effects» in affected ecosystems, says Michael Lannoo, a herpetologist at Indiana University and expert on amphibian declines.

Isolates might also be planted in soil to «colonize» salamanders as they walk through it, Woodhams says.

In a limestone cave at the bottom of a lake 113 metres below the surface of Croatia, biologists have discovered an amphibious salamander known as an olm — a creature once believed to be a baby dragon.

Frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians aren't known as faithful lovers.