Sentences with phrase «modern salamanders»

«We definitely didn't expect frog bones,» says Tissier, because modern salamanders rarely eat those animals.

Although both species are distant relatives of modern salamanders, they are not true frogs or salamanders, but members of an extinct group that was common during the Permian.

«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.

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.

New data from the fossil record offers a new perspective on the evolution of the enormous regenerative capacities of modern salamanders.

Not exact matches

There are over 3,000 known species of modern amphibians, which includes Anura (frogs and toads), Urodela (newts and salamanders), and Gymnophiona (burrowing amphibians).

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.

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).

Modern relatives of the amber specimen are commonly found in North America today, especially in the Appalachians, but P. hispaniolae — and all salamanders — have long been extinct in the Caribbean, the researchers explain.