Sentences with phrase «make salamanders»

Any strategy to make salamanders more resistant to Bsal will likely take years to develop.

If the researchers incorrectly estimated a 200,000 - year - old salamander species to be 2 million years old, then their result was off by a factor of 10, making the salamander's rate of evolution 20,000 times slower than climate change instead of 200,000 times slower.

Not exact matches

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

Attempts to clone animals began more than 100 years ago, but it took seaweed jelly, salamanders and some strands of baby hair to make it work

From sea slugs to salamanders, many animals can naturally tap into solar power — and we're learning how to make more

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.

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.

Not much is known about Bsal in the United States, so the first step is studying U.S. salamanders to see whether the fungus has already made the jump.

The study quantified the rate of decline and also showed that sexually mature fire salamanders are much more likely than juveniles to get infected (probably during fights with rivals or mating), which prevents them from reproducing and makes the population less likely to recover.

«The frog was really small, which may have made it easier for the salamander to catch it,» he adds.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Gettysburg College found that this symbiosis, the only known example that includes a vertebrate species, puts stress on algal cells, changing the way they make energy, but does not seem to negatively impact salamander cells.

They found that algae inside salamander cells are stressed and change the way they make energy.

This endangered Mexican salamander serves as its own NAPA store for lost body parts, able to fully regenerate limbs, tail, heart, spine and eyes — making it a model of curiosity for regenerative biologists.

He is also an alchemist, able to make gold from the tears of the fiery salamander he captured from the heart of the mountain.

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

Its small size makes it perfect for offices and bedrooms, with an ideal amount of space for small ground - dwelling lizards, geckos, arboreal or aquatic frogs, newts, salamanders, toads and many invertebrates.

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