Sentences with phrase «from other amphibians»

The second change involved in the transition to frogs and toads from other amphibians was in the sacral ribs, broad bones attached to a vertebra which in most land - living vertebrates fit below and inside the pelvis to hold it fixed relative to the backbone.

Not exact matches

Tuesday we talked about different kinds of amphibians and how to distinguish an amphibian from other critters.

Guided by Karen Glennemeier, a Shedd conservation ecologist who specializes in amphibians, Ford volunteers helped clear sugar maple trees that were preventing important other native species from prospering.

Now the same team have screened over 5,000 amphibians from four continents to ascertain the threat the new disease presents to other species.The results, published today in the journal Science, show that B. salamandrivorans is very dangerous to salamanders and newts, but not to frogs, toads and snake - like amphibians called caecilians.

The amphibians» true distinctiveness, however, was revealed by genetic tests; their DNA is very different from that of other toads.

They were confined by their own novel physiology, which differed from other reptiles and amphibians and limited where they could live.

In reptiles, amphibians, and other groups, color mostly comes from chromatophores — cells within the skin that hold color - producing pigment molecules.

Nevertheless, Carroll says that even earlier fossils will have to be discovered to determine exactly when the ancestral frogs split from the lineage of other amphibians.

«We have seriously underestimated the effects of climate change on the most well - known groups, which means those other groups, reptiles, amphibians, fish, plants, the story is going to be much, much worse in terms of what we think the threat is from climate change already,» he said.

«There is already evidence from fossilized stomach contents that ancient sharks like Orthacanthus preyed on amphibians and other fish, but this is the first evidence that these sharks also ate the young of their own species.»

Although the two collections are separated by millions of years, comparing and contrasting the finds reveals how dinosaurs, mammals, amphibians and other animal groups from basically the same area changed over time.

The plot involves the Muppets crew becoming part of a grand scheme perpetrated by the «world's most dangerous frog», a Russian - accented amphibian named Constantine, whose facial mole is the only differentiating trait (other than his voice) from Kermit the Frog.

Dr. Kulig received her veterinary degree from The University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and although she is not specialty board certified as an Avian or Small Mammal Veterinarian (ABVP Certified) she has many years» experience diagnosing and treating birds, reptiles, amphibians, rodents, ferrets and other small mammal species.

Additionally, these LED fixtures have been designed specifically for reptile and amphibian use, instead of simply being adapted from other industries.

In 2009, Ballengée and SK Sessions published «Explanation for Missing Limbs in Deformed Amphibians» in the Journal of Experimental Zoology and received international media attention from the BBC and others.

There are only two known living specimens, both refugees from a place in Panama devastated — like so many other amphibian habitats — by the spreading chytrid fungus.