Sentences with word «salamander»

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 recently described fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, has caused a crash in wild populations of fire salamanders in the Netherlands.

Conservation Status The most recent edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listed the Channel Islands slender salamander as of Least Concern since, although its Extent of Occurrence is much less than 5,000 per square kilometer, it is common and occurs in an area of extensive, suitable habitat which appears not to be under threat, it has a presumed large population, and it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

The previously unknown fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans was discovered last year by researchers investigating a huge crash in the population of fire salamanders in the Netherlands.

Developed by Konami and known as Salamander in Japan, it's a slight variation of the classic Gradius formula.

Axolotls evolved relatively recently compared to other salamander species in the region, and they thrived along the banks of Lake Texcoco in the mountains of central Mexico.

We're seeing species like salamanders facing endangerment due to the slight increase in temperature.

Her new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology investigates the stresses experienced by the limb bones of tiger salamanders during terrestrial locomotion.

A healthy fire salamander from a captive - bred collection at a British zoo.

«The threat to global salamander populations from a new fungal strain is very real and of great concern to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,» Laury Marshall Parramore, a spokeswoman for the wildlife agency, wrote in an email.

Researchers in western Massachusetts found that roadkill rates on rural roads were high enough to lead to localized extinction of spotted salamanders in as few as 25 years.

My 8 - year - old commented, «I can't believe how much Katie's life changed,» and my younger child has begged to search for salamanders on the first night of spring rain.

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.

The Henderson is owned by Memphis - based Dunavant Enterprises, Inc., and is managed by Salamander Hotels & Resorts, the luxury hotel management company founded by Sheila C. Johnson.

A luxury getaway at Salamander Resort and Spa in Virginia includes luxury accommodations, fine dining and full - service wellness spa.

It's good to see you all hale and hearty with those lovely summer tans, or in case of those of you who live in my part of the world where there's absolutely no risk of sun - stroke, just the risk of being roasted to nice crisp and gobbled up by giant salamander with a scraggly brown moustache rocking a limited edition «Richard Mille» **.

Among others, for the first time the researchers discovered an Asiatic representative of the extinct frog family Palaeobatrachidae as well as evidence of a giant salamander with a length of up to 1.80 meters.

Several endemic reptile and amphibian species including the island fence lizard, island night lizard, and Channel Islands slender salamander live on the islands.

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Nope I wound up using Salamander by Benjamin Moore.

In stark contrast, affected salamander cells appear to recognize the alga as foreign but show no signs of stress during the interaction.

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That inaugural event was held at Salamander Bay in the Hunter region of NSW.

The heart cells of the Mexican salamander provide a mystery and challenge to cardiovascular scientists.

All seven European salamander species they tested were highly susceptible.

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

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Regardless, the finding makes P. sigei the only extinct salamander known to have consumed frogs.

A skin - eating fungal disease brought to Europe by humans now poses a major threat to native salamanders and newts, scientists of the Universities of Zurich and Ghent University have warned.

Reproduction The Channel Islands slender salamander do not have the ability to dig their own burrows, but use excavations of other animals and cracks in the soil, in addition to man made tunnels and crevices.

Somehow, the older nucleus could still give rise to an entire adult salamander in this way.

She founded Salamander Hotels and Resorts, a hospitality company, as well as the Middleburg Film Festival, which premiered La La Land last year.

It might be hard to imagine, but there is one aquatic salamander about which I must give some words of caution: the Amphiuma (this is both the common and genus name).

A guard at a recently created amphibian reserve in the Cuchumatanes Mountain range in Guatemala, for example, chanced upon the brilliantly colored Jackson's climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa jacksoni) more than 40 years after it was first recorded.

Also make a point of visiting Park Guell to see «The Dragon», Gaudi's beautiful mosaiced salamander which guards the entrance.

He was learning so much about salamander nostrils, but I guess his passion was really in high - energy muon collisions.»

Tiger salamanders like this young, healthy specimen show few symptoms of infection until they are dying.

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

Over the past 30 years, the highly lethal pathogen has caused the catastrophic decline or extinction of at least 200 species of frogs on six different continents and has been implicated in the unexplained disappearance of Central American salamanders as well.

The study was prompted by the research of Curators» Professor Ray Semlitsch, who has been studying salamander populations in the Appalachian Mountains since 2005.

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

«Strolling salamanders provide clues on how animals evolved to move from water to land.»

A rare and unusual amphibian, the Texas blind salamander, Eurycea rathbuni, lives entirely in the persistent darkness of water - filled caves connected to the Edwards Aquifer in Hays County, Texas.

Andrew Young and Susan Todd worked in extreme weather and at all hours of the night to capture elusive events, such as the annual migration of spotted salamanders back to their birth pond and the births of raccoon kits, a fawn, and the aforementioned ducklings.

Skin Microbiomes of California Terrestrial Salamanders Are Influenced by Habitat More Than Host Phylogeny — Alicia K. Bird — Frontiers in Microbiology

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

This buys time to develop and implement an enforceable «clean trade system» that could allow salamanders to be imported again, but in a way that will minimize the chance of the pathogen reaching vulnerable wild populations in North America.

They have a lovely mottled pattern that sometimes reminds me of Army - style camouflage, and they are distinguished as being the only salamander capable of vocalizing, sounding roughly like a small dog's bark.