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Anderson's review of the biomechanics literature suggests that the motion has the highest acceleration and power output produced per kilogram of muscle mass by any reptile, bird, or mammal and is the second most powerful among any kind of vertebrate (only a salamander outdoes it).

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Unless your a Salamander then it is not only theoretically possible, but it is physically possible go, figure.

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.

Surprisingly, the measurements showed that not only the terrestrial adult salamanders, but also the fully aquatic juvenile salamanders — and even the lungfish, which are completely maladapted to aerial hearing — were able to detect airborne sound despite not having a tympanic middle ear.

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS — Although the blind cave salamander Proteus anguinus is one of the national animals of Slovenia, it's so shy that there have been only about 300 sightings in 300 years.

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

Only two specimens of this striking salamander have ever been seen, and one quickly went missing.

When they do emerge, salamanders can be spotted not only on forest floors but also up in trees and on other vegetation, oftentimes climbing as high as 8 feet up.

Schmidt, research group leader at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich and academic associate for the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme, says, «Our mark - and - recapture data shows that only 13 percent of the infected salamanders survive over a 10 - day period.»

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

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.

Unlike most amphibians, the mud - colored salamander retained its tadpole form into adulthood, breathed through feathery gills jutting out of the sides of its head, and lived only in a handful of lakes in central Mexico.

The prey was just 18 - 20 millimetres long, whereas the salamander may have been 150 mm — although the fossil is only about 60 mm long because it is missing its head and parts of its tail and neck.

Previously, salamanders were the only four - limbed creatures, or tetrapods, known to lack lungs.

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.

This cell - within - a-cell relationship can also be found in corals and in the guts of cicadas, but the green alga - spotted salamander interaction is the only known example of a symbiont entering the cells of a vertebrate species.

The symbiosis was originally thought to occur only between the salamander embryo and the algae living outside it.

As unassuming as it might look, the unisexual Ambystoma salamander has been breaking evolution's rules for millions of years to establish a girls - only lineage.

However, those cloning methods could be used only in experiments with a small number of primitive living creatures, such as sea urchins and salamanders.

Located on the Soldiers Point peninsula, only minutes from Nelson Bay Salamander Shores Hotel is the ideal base for your next holiday.

Introduction The Channel Island slender salamander is found on Santa Cruz, San Miguel, Santa Rosa, and Anacapa islands and is the only endemic amphibian found on any of the California islands.

Range The Channel Islands slender salamander is an endemic species found only on the Channel Islands, although not on Santa Barbara Island.

Lungless salamanders breathe through their skin, requiring them to live in damp environments on land, not in water, and to move about on the ground only during times of high humidity.

Only Channel Islands slender salamanders were found under dried cow pies in open grassland.

However, only Channel Islands slender salamanders were found under driftwood on a sandy substrate near the ocean.

The cool, as - of - yet unnamed salamander wasn't the only new species uncovered during the trek, either.