Sentences with phrase «group of amphibians»

Nussbaum, a University of Michigan zoologist who specializes in caecilians, the little - known group of amphibians to which this beast belongs, learned of the specimen from one of his graduate students.

The newly described species (artist's representation shown), which lived between 220 million and 230 million years ago, was one of the largest in a group of amphibians known as metoposaurs and is the first known in this region from well - preserved fossils, the researchers report online today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology shows that several of these Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens of a diverse group of amphibian, mammal, and reptile species.

Not exact matches

When one considers the «evolution» of fish to amphibian to reptile to mammal, why do we have virtually no fossil evidence doc umenting the transitions between these major groups?

Both of these groups focus on animals (reptiles, amphibians and birds, respectively) but as our Horticulturist Seth Harper might say, what about plants?

The second group of 2017 Golden Goose awardees — Joyce Longcore at the University of Maine and Allan Pessier, Don Nichols and Elaine Lamirande, formerly of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park — were recognized for unlocking a mystery to better understand and react to a global epidemic among amphibians.

There is only one group of vertebrate that has the capacity to regenerate highly complex structures such as limbs, jaws, tail, spinal cord, or eyes throughout their lives: the urodele amphibians.

The salamanders use their tongues to catch insects literally on the fly, and the evidence, published in February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a bow.

Amphibians are going extinct faster than any other group of organisms.

Amphibians are a group that is highly sensitive to global warming due to the permeability of their skin and their complex lifecycle, which combines an aquatic stage as larvae and a terrestrial stage when young and as adults.

Also in January, the nonprofit group Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International (RAEI) announced that an expedition to the rain forests of coastal Ecuador had found new reptiles, insects, and amphibians whose habitat is threatened by climate change and deforestation.

It is thought to be responsible for a 12 per cent drop in the population of one group of Mexican lizards since 1975, and a 75 per cent decline in reptiles and amphibians in Costa Rica's native forests since 1970.

About 40 percent of the bird species listed by the IUCN didn't make the ESA list, and over 80 percent of other groups like fish, amphibians and insects.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus.

«We show that even if deforestation had completely halted in 2010, time lags ensured there would still be a carbon emissions debt equivalent to five to ten years of global deforestation and an extinction debt of more than 140 bird, mammal, and amphibian forest - specific species, which, if paid, would increase the number of 20th century extinctions in these groups by 120 percent,» says Isabel Rosa (@isamdr86) of the Imperial College of London.

Among the team's findings was evidence of a giant salamander, a group of tailed amphibians with a length of up to 1.80 meters that today are only found in rainy regions of Japan and China.

It is widely recognised that amphibians are among the most threatened animal groups: for example, in 2008, 32 % of species were listed as «threatened or extinct» and 42 % were listed as in decline.

That's just a snapshot of the astonishing diversity found in the group of fishes called teleosts, or ray - finned fish, which today have 30,000 species — more than all living mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined.

Representatives of this group of viruses, the minister adds, have been found in insects, amphibians, reptiles, fish and algae in different parts of the world, but so far no other link has been established between them.

It's a pity, really — if whales were amphibians, that much maligned and oft ignored group might benefit from some of the huge amounts of public sympathy (and money) available to cetacean conservation.

At 17, he joined a group of herpetologists and enthusiasts, which focused on amphibian and reptile diseases.

«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.

In frogs there is now some evidence of this: last year several research groups reported that some populations appear to be becoming resistant to a fungus that has decimated many amphibian species.

However, in one group of tetrapods, temnospondyls (which are thought to be the ancestors of modern amphibians) these denticles were also found on small, bony plates that filled the large soft part of the palate.

Although specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of land - living species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.

Members of this group are usually found on underwater decaying plant or animal matter, but Bd is different — it feeds on the skin of living amphibians, primarily frogs.

There is a vast diversity of additional groups of fossil vertebrates, including: (1) crocodilians and their extinct pseudosuchian kin; (2) marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and the like; (3) lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards, mosasaurs, tuataras, and their extinct relatives); (4) other fossil reptiles; (5) the extinct synapsid ancestors and relatives of mammals; and (6) amphibian - grade animals such as lepospondyls, temnospondyls, and seymouriamorphs (Benton 2014).

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.

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director — Guillermo del Toro, I shouldn't have to say much to sing the praises of this fantastical love story about a mute woman, an amphibian creature, and the group of outcasts who help them.

Includes each of the following for all 6 animal groups (Invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds and fish): KWL, reading passages (colorful with actual pictures of animals), reading comprehension (fill in the blanks) with answer key, interactive notebook foldable (correlates with reading passage), diary of an animal writing assignment, place the animal in its habitat.

Organize students into five groups and assign each group one of the following categories of animals: fish, mammal, bird, amphibian, insect.

Objectives covered: Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets) Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties Observe changes across the 4 seasons Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies ALSO ADDED: Individual assessments for ALL science objectives for ALL year groups are available for purchase as are individual year group, KS1, KS2 or complete Primary packs.

This group includes all types of birds (parrots, love birds, cockatoos, finches, chickens, toucans), reptiles (turtles, tortoises, lizards, snakes), amphibians (frogs, salamanders, and caecilians), fish, pocket pets or small mammals (rabbit, guinea pig, chinchilla, hamster), backyard mammals (pigs, goats), other mammals (lions, foxes, bears, primates), and virtually any other animal with the exception of some domestic animals (dogs, cats, cows, horses).

Pet care services from South Wilton Veterinary Group include expertise in a wide range of animal companions: dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, amphibians, small pets, and exotics.

I have had a love for reptiles and amphibians since the age of 11 and as a teenager I would foster kittens for rescue groups.

Named Chinlestegophis jenkinsi, the new fossils act as a sort of «missing link,» connecting caecilians to stereospondyls, the most diverse amphibian group during the Triassic Period over 200 million years ago.

«Our textbook - changing discovery will require paleontologists to re-evaluate the timing of the origin of modern amphibian groups and how they evolved,» Huttenlocker noted.

Clearly, when you consider mobility rates for wider groups of organisms, not just flora but fauna such as insects, amphibians, mammals and birds, you are going to ssee still wider ranges.

This map from the paper shows how the park, outlined in blue, sits at the conjunction of areas of peak biological diversity in for groups — amphibians, birds, mammals and vascular plants:

Forget the fact that numerous studies report worrying trends for many well - studied groups like birds and amphibians (the latter that are experiencing a pandemic decline and are excellent indicators of the health of the environment), you want us to wait until all of our life - support systems are collapsing around us before you will say that, «OK, I believe it.

And the scientists say that since 90 % of all tree species on Earth are tropical trees, trees deserve to be considered along with cycads, amphibians and corals as those groups with the highest proportion of threatened species.

Mammals, birds, amphibians and many other groups are exposed to development or climate change threats in isolated parts of the Andes in Amazonian Peru and Bolivia.

Extending the estimates to cover other species — such as mammals, amphibians and some reptile, fish, plant and invertebrate groups — pushes the estimate to US$ 76.1 billion annually, a relatively small increase because these other species benefit greatly already by the protection of lands targeted for bird conservation efforts.

Of the more than 47,000 species surveyed, about 17,000 are at serious risk — of those 21 % of the world's mammal species, 12 % of birds, 28 % of reptiles, 30 % of amphibians, 35 % of invertebrates, 37 % of freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiOf the more than 47,000 species surveyed, about 17,000 are at serious risk — of those 21 % of the world's mammal species, 12 % of birds, 28 % of reptiles, 30 % of amphibians, 35 % of invertebrates, 37 % of freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof those 21 % of the world's mammal species, 12 % of birds, 28 % of reptiles, 30 % of amphibians, 35 % of invertebrates, 37 % of freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof the world's mammal species, 12 % of birds, 28 % of reptiles, 30 % of amphibians, 35 % of invertebrates, 37 % of freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof birds, 28 % of reptiles, 30 % of amphibians, 35 % of invertebrates, 37 % of freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof reptiles, 30 % of amphibians, 35 % of invertebrates, 37 % of freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof amphibians, 35 % of invertebrates, 37 % of freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof invertebrates, 37 % of freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof freshwater fish and 70 % of plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof plants: Jane Smart, director of IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group says there is mounting evidence that we are in the midst of a serious extinction crisiof a serious extinction crisis.

Frogs are the most threatened vertebrate group on Earth, with nearly one - third of the world's 6,468 amphibian species in danger, the company says.