A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that
the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolution.
Not exact matches
Some species also live to
extraordinary old ages and — even more remarkably — do so with no signs of poor health, such as a decline in
regenerative capacity or an increase in age - related mortality.