Sentences with phrase «of salamanders»

The Channel Islands slender salamander (Batrachoseps pacificus) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family.

Now, using new sampling and statistical techniques not available during the past study, researchers at the University of Missouri have estimated that the population of salamanders in forested regions of the Missouri Ozarks are 2 - 4 times higher than originally thought, and in other regions of the eastern U.S. may be on average 10 times higher.

The first order of business is for the federal government temporarily to bar imports of salamanders.

Only small numbers of the black - yellow amphibian have survived the invasion of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans — the «devourer of salamanders.»

Last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned the import of 201 species of salamanders on the grounds that they might introduce the fungus.

Researchers have managed to sequence the giant genome of a salamander, the Iberian ribbed newt, which is a full six times greater than the human genome.

We would have evolved as we have to question the puff the magic out of salamander spiel.

Join us for a night of costumed characters and lantern - lit trails as we celebrate the annual spring migration of salamanders and tree frogs back to the vernal pools where they were born.

The researchers captured an equal number of salamanders on the ground and up on trees or shrubs and then brought them back to the lab, where they anesthetized them and flushed the stomachs of their contents.

After that reform, one voting district had roughly the shape of a salamander, which was nicknamed «the Gerry - mander» by the press.

North America is the global center of salamander biodiversity, home to more than 150 of the world's 655 known salamander species.

An even bigger fear is that the pathogen will reach North America, which holds the world's greatest diversity of salamanders.

Without action, the same fate awaits many of our salamanders as a result of Bsal.

Stan Frankenthaler, chef and president of Salamander Restaurant, in Cambridge, Mass., brings an element of theater to his ongoing training sessions.

Trekkers collect a rubbing from a marker with a relief of the salamander, beaver, fern, or lady's slipper that might be found nearby.

Threading boundaries between and through centres of population on the pretext of ensuring fairness is also a great way to cheat for your own benefit — a practice known as gerrymandering, after a 19th - century governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who created an electoral division whose shape reminded a local newspaper editor of a salamander.

I had a little zoo of salamanders and opossums and other creatures.

This means that the chytridiomycosis pandemic, which has been largely responsible for the decimation of the salamander, frog and toad populations in the USA, Central America and Australia, has now reached a biodiversity hotspot.

Using data from high - speed video recordings of 96 feedings, the researchers measured the speed of the salamanders» tongue thrusts as the animals ate crickets, termites, and other bugs.

This is the fossil of the salamander Chunerpeton showing not only the preserved skeleton but also the skin and even external gills.

At the end, they had a laundry list of things found in the guts of these salamanders.

The mountain range's moist forests make it a global hot spot for a variety of salamander species.

«We have billions of these newts living in the wild all across the continent,» says Lips, «and because they're highly sensitive to this fungus, they could amplify it or spread it to other groups of salamanders.

Classically the high regenerative capacities of salamanders were considered something special and derived for salamanders.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Commission banned the import of 201 species of salamander into the United States, and between state boundaries.

Martel and Pasmans detected the fungus in samples of salamanders that other researchers had collected in Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan — including a museum specimen more than 150 years old — but not in salamanders from other parts of the world.

By preventing the entry of salamanders that are known to spread the disease, researchers hope to prevent making the same mistakes they made with Bd.

However, Semlitsch's group, armed with the knowledge that the majority of salamanders are underground at any given time, captured animals on the surface during intensive repeated surveys over two years and used statistical modeling to produce a more thorough accounting of variation in salamander population density.

Future forest management techniques and protection of salamanders are important to healthy forest ecosystems and should be considered in all forest management decisions, Semlitsch said.

The results showed that that mudskippers» pectoral fins experience more medial forces than the limbs of salamanders, and that the forelimbs could have a played a similar weight - bearing role as the hind limbs.

Such a sudden and rapid depletion of salamander species, especially ones with dense populations such as the eastern newt, could have «cascading effects» in affected ecosystems, says Michael Lannoo, a herpetologist at Indiana University and expert on amphibian declines.

Over half of salamander species listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature — 282 out of 560 — fall under a Threatened category.

In quiet isolation, they contemplated the curve of a finch's beak or the colour of a salamander's tail.

Bsal infects and eats the skin of salamanders, causing lesions, apathy, loss of appetite, and eventually death.

Scientists have known for more than a century that a green alga (Oophila amblystomatis) grows in the egg cases of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)-- the strange pairing is visible to the naked eye in the green hue of salamanders» eggs.

But it was a documentary on the ability of salamanders to regrow limbs that really piqued his curiosity.

The primitive amphibian, which is a type of salamander found in Mexico, can regrow its legs, tail and even parts of its spinal cord.

A story Peter was working on for the Fire volume insisted on expanding to book length with the title The Tears of the Salamander which was published in 2003.

The re-legalization of salamander and newt sales within the U.S. could open up new opportunities for herptile retailers.

Frehley and a team of other dogs were trained to trace the smell of salamander scat and distinguish between male and female salamanders, helping researchers estimate how many of the elusive species have survived a regional drought.

Taking it's position among the best Port Stephens resorts in the coastal holiday haven of Salamander Bay, Oaks Pacific Blue Resort offers a warm and welcoming choice for holidaymakers seeking affordable, self - contained convenience and an impressive selection of leisure facilities — including Australia's largest swimming pool!

That means the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has had five months to put into place protocols that could prevent this plague from reaching salamanders in the United States, which is home to the most diverse array of salamander species in the world.

The pathogen likely originated and remained in coexistence with a clade of salamander hosts for millions of years in Asia.

There's plenty of background in earlier posts describing the ecological importance of salamanders in our forests and this disease.

Bsal has caused major die - offs of salamanders in Europe and poses an imminent threat to U.S. native salamander populations.

A Kweichow crocodile newt, a member of the salamander family, eating an earthworm.

In Monkton, VT 10 years of Salamander Crossing Brigades has resulted in the installation of Vermont's first salamander tunnels.