Sentences with phrase «other salamanders»

Although other salamanders metamorphose into terrestrial creatures, axolotls hold on to their feathery gills and stay in the water for their entire lives.

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.

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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.

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.

And a planned dam, Xiaonanhai, that would be built in the middle of the last remaining untouched habitat of the Yangtze sturgeon, giant salamander and 66 other fish species of concern, says Yan Xie, China Program director for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Other scientists of the era examined the salamander's ability to replace a severed tail.

Other fun facts: The United States has a wider array of ecological regions, such as tundra and desert, than any other country, and the world's richest collections of freshwater mussels and salamanOther fun facts: The United States has a wider array of ecological regions, such as tundra and desert, than any other country, and the world's richest collections of freshwater mussels and salamanother country, and the world's richest collections of freshwater mussels and salamanders.

Right now, at least 2,000 frogs, salamanders and other amphibians are in danger of going extinct, according to a survey by biologists David Wake and Vance Vredenburg, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Three sequences matched collagen peptide scripts from chickens, one matched a frog and another a salamander; the other two matched multiple organisms, including chickens and salamanders.

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.

«We found no evidence that climbing allows these salamanders to more fully exploit available food resources, which instead suggests that other mechanisms, such as competition or predator avoidance, might be important influences on salamander populations,» said Connette.

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.

Several species of frogs, salamanders, toads and other amphibians around the world have gone extinct or are disappearing («Decline and fall of the amphibians», New Scientist, 27 June 1992).

Then, the robots glom onto each other to form snail - shaped, arrow - shaped, salamander - shaped and finally plier - shaped composite bots.

His work so far suggests that the salamanders prefer fairly dirty ponds over the most pristine ones — another sign that axolotls might still thrive in Xochimilco if other pressures are removed.

Visit www.irreplaceablewild.org for more information about the show's schedule and the campaign, and also for online photos of the Ozark zigzag salamander and other at - risk species.

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.

During the infection experiments, they found that some Asian salamanders developed symptoms and then recovered, whereas others were completely resistant.

An Martel and Frank Pasmans are deciphering a fungal threat to fire salamanders and other species.

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.

«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.

Frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians aren't known as faithful lovers.

«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.

«Our approach allows us to identify not just the mechanisms necessary to drive regeneration in salamanders but what is happening differently in humans in reposes to injury,» said Echeverri, adding that the work has implications for other types of injury, as well.

The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question — why some organisms can regenerate major body parts such as hearts and limbs while others, such as humans, can not — may lie with the body's innate immune system, according to a new study of heart regeneration in the axolotl, or Mexican salamander, an organism that takes the prize as nature's champion of regeneration.

In dramatic contrast to the poor repair outcomes for humans and rodent models such as mice, salamanders are able to completely regenerate heart tissue, whole limbs and many other tissues following injury, at any life stage.

András Simon predicts that the explanation lies in a combination of genes unique to salamanders and how other more common genes orchestrate and control the actual regeneration process.

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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.

This group includes all types of birds (parrots, love birds, cockatoos, finches, chickens, toucans), reptiles (turtles, tortoises, lizards, snakes), amphibians (frogs, salamanders, and caecilians), fish, pocket pets or small mammals (rabbit, guinea pig, chinchilla, hamster), backyard mammals (pigs, goats), other mammals (lions, foxes, bears, primates), and virtually any other animal with the exception of some domestic animals (dogs, cats, cows, horses).

Captivating Creatures There are some other fully aquatic salamanders that fall a little more far afield of the Woolworth's contingent, and they can be some pretty spectacular aquarium denizens.

White's tree frogs, tiger salamanders, and aquatic newts are others that prove equally rewarding both as pets and as inventory.

Unlike other species of Batrachoseps occurring at low elevations on the mainland in which surface activity declines following the rainy season, Channel Islands slender salamanders remain surface active at some sites throughout the year.

The other four islands where these salamanders live (East Anacapa, Middle Anacapa, West Anacapa, and San Miguel islands) are managed entirely as natural areas and appear to provide good salamander habitat.

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Some other bosses, such as the flying paint witch, lava - dwelling toad, and segmented salamander, demand more thought, but the majority are relative non-events.

Her work has appeared in Salamander, Redivider, The MacGuffin, Southern Humanities Review and others.

Frogs, for example, are a critical part of the forest ecosystem, living with salamanders and other amphibians in vernal pools.

In the United States, no agency directly regulates imports of salamanders or other amphibians.

They host sky - high worlds Incredibly, mats of soil on the upper branches of the canopy support other plants and whole communities of worms, insects, salamanders and mammals.

MARTEL, A., BLOOI, M., ADRIAENSEN, C., VAN ROOIJ, P., BEUKEMA, W., FISHER, M. C. & OTHERS (2014) Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders.

The recently discovered fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, is causing the rapid loss of infected fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) populations in continental Europe (Martel and others 2013).

Other specimens were infected with a fungus that has already devastated salamanders in continental Europe and could spread to North America.

Many species of salamander and newt (urodeles) have been shown experimentally to be susceptible to fatal infection, including the UK protected species, the great crested newt (Triturus cristatus)(Martel and others 2014).

From Montpelier to Brattleboro volunteers wearing reflective vests and carrying Salamander Crossing signs hand deliver frogs and salamanders to the other side of the road, helping them on their journey back to their natal pool.