Sentences with phrase «salamanders back»

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Man may indeed someday be able to grow limbs back, there is research going on to find out how salamanders do it.

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.

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

He noticed that the skin of resistant red - backed salamanders hosts a bacterium, Janthinobacterium lividum, that produces an antifungal compound called violacein.

The team had also hoped that the fungus would become less virulent — as often occurs when a pathogen reaches a new host that lacks any immunity — but that hasn't happened: Fungal spores taken from the last fire salamanders in the Belgian forest, when dripped onto the backs of healthy salamanders in the lab, were just as lethal as those collected early in the outbreak.

It immediately took me back 50 years to my own desire for a frog or maybe a salamander.

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.