Sentences with phrase «like salamanders»

Animals like salamanders readily regenerate severed limbs as adults, but mammals can not.

They start off like salamanders and end up like humans.

«Humans have very limited capacity for regeneration, while other species like salamanders have the remarkable ability to functionally regenerate limbs, heart tissue and even the spinal cord after injury,» said lead researcher Karen Echeverri, PhD, assistant professor in the department of genetics, cell biology and development at the University of Minnesota.

Non-mammalian animals like zebrafish, fruit flies, nematode worms and even seemingly more exotic creatures like salamanders and Mexican blind cavefish provide powerful experimental models for understanding fundamental biology and disease mechanisms.

«These findings show that tissue regeneration in African spiny mice is similar to that described for other vertebrate regenerators like salamanders and zebrafish, giving us a powerful framework to understand mammalian regeneration,» said Seifert.

One example of this is in amphibians like salamanders.

Apparently, like some salamanders, this animal absorbs oxygen and expels carbon dioxide directly through its skin.

The ability to grow a new limb may seem like something straight out of science fiction, but new research shows exactly how animals like salamanders and zebrafish perform this stunning feat — and how humans may share the biological machinery that lets them do it.

Moreover, if you are lined like a salamander you can eat such a lot of it, notwithstanding its blistering, peppery qualities, and in the day ye eat thereof ye shall not surely nor necessarily die.

If only the injured worker were more like a salamander, the severed digits would grow back all of their own accord.

He was entranced by the idea that we already are like the salamander.

Every time we cut ourselves, our body forms clots, carries off dead tissue and bacteria, and — like a salamander — regrows skin at the wound site.

The potential to create new muscle cells through cell division, much like a salamander does, could offer new hope to the millions living with damaged hearts.

Despite its genetic detriments — considerable dimensions, high center of gravity, substantial weight — the Urus hugs the road like a salamander climbing up a sheet of glass, it juggles power and torque like an orangutan brachiating between trees, its responses are as sharp as a chameleon's tongue, and it decelerates like a serpent recoiling from an attack.

Must make like a salamander... grow more fingers.

Not exact matches

Now they embrace a guy who believes a whole lot of nutty stuff like the white salamander story and fulfills a Mormon prophecy if elected.

Others are local oddities, like Alabama's Red Hills salamander, which has been seen emerging from its burrows on steep forest slopes so rarely that it was only discovered in 1960.

Tiger salamander eggs are laid in the late winter or early spring, and like other salamanders, and their cousins the frogs and toads, their larvae are fully aquatic with external gills and fishlike tails.

Urodeles are salamanders like the ones found in ponds across North America and Europe.

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.

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.

At 30 centimeters, Proteus is a giant among salamanders, and — like most cave creatures — it has lost its eyes and its color.

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 fungus therefore lives on, even after more sensitive animals like the fire salamander have already long died.

Shubin deduces that the creature would have looked a bit like a two - foot - long salamander with massive limbs; it probably lived in shallow, plant - choked waters.

Tiger salamanders like this young, healthy specimen show few symptoms of infection until they are dying.

«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.

One, Timonya annae (tih - MOAN - yuh ann - AYE), was a small, fully aquatic amphibian with fangs and gills, looking something like a cross between a modern Mexican salamander and an eel.

«Much like cave salamanders that have lost their eyes after being in the dark, owls too appear to have lost their violet opsin — the receptor birds use to see violet and ultraviolet light,» Dumbacher says.

But for other species, like the black salamander, a changing climate produces new pockets of habitat to the north, but they don't ever overlap the salamander's current or future range in the San Francisco Bay Area, leaving the animals stranded.

Higher vertebrates like mammals generally have a diminished capacity for tissue regeneration compared with lower vertebrates like fish and salamanders.

It might sound like something out of a Dr. Seuss story, but biologists have long told tales of the green eggs of the spotted salamander.

It sounds like a movie plot, but it's real and it's happening today to the world's frogs and salamanders.

The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable, but their ancient ancestors had a full array of teeth, large fangs and thousands of tiny hook - like structures called denticles on the roofs of their mouths that would snare prey, according to new research by paleontologists at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM).

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.

Chickens, horses, dogs, honeybees, spiders and salamanders have some number - like skills.

: Where Jerry Goldsmith was lionized for any number of inventive, mainstream scores like «Basic Instinct,» «Total Recall» and «The Wind and the Lion,» the composer had an equal knack for embodying idiosyncratic characters for movies well below the widely accepted radar like «Under Fire,» «The Salamander» and «The Traveling Executioner.»

Look for rainy - day critters like snails, frogs, toads, and salamanders.

Axolotls are a species of salamander that never metamorphose out of the larval state, something like pollywogs that never become frogs.

That's our shorthand for the range of amphibians that the famed five - and - dime retailer was famous for stocking when we were kids: inexpensive aquatic frogs and salamanders, as well as hermit crabs and the like.

A new regulatory board in West Virginia threatens to outlaw common pets like gerbils, hamsters and salamanders.

Frogs, toads and salamanders make fantastic pets and need medical care like dogs and cats.

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.

There is nothing like walking through a wooded area in search of a specific species and finally coming upon that salamander, snake or frog.

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.

It has short limbs, a narrow head, long slender body, very long tail, and with its conspicuous costal and end of torso grooves, this species has the worm - like appearance typical of most slender salamanders.

With subsequent hits like the NES» Castlevania, MSX's Metal Gear, and Arcade's Contra, Twinbee, and Salamander, they became one of the biggest video game developers.

Get yourself ready to face and overcome enemies like Vicious Snakes, Hungry Vampire Bats, spooky Giant Spiders, Creepy salamanders &...

Like certain salamanders, which have evolved to be photosynthetic vertebrates, Burton and Nitta imagine a near - future where suits will be used, and a «far future» where human bodies will be enhanced to accommodate new ways of fuelling themselves: