They found three new species of salamander on that trip, including the long-limbed salamander ( Nyctanolis pernix ) and the Finca Chiblac Salamander ( Bradytriton silus ).
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The fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, also known as Bsal or salamander chytrid, is carried on the skin of various salamander species.
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There are a number of mole salamander species belonging to the family Ambystomatidae, including the California tiger salamander (thoroughly dragged in an Onion article) and the ladies-only salamander lineage that steals genes from males from other species.
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In the past, eating, say, a critically endangered giant salamander could cause trouble—but only in terms of punishment for the restaurant that overcharged for giant salamander meat, that is, or bad publicity for cops who decide to chow down on giant salamander at a celebratory meal.
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By the 1990s, giant salamander meat had been rebranded as a luxury food item in China, and government-subsidized salamander farms began popping up around the country.
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Even the woman charged with watching hundreds of hours of salamander footage — oh yes, Frozen 2 features one adorable salamander — seemed ready to do it again in a heartbeat.
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In place of teeth, the salamander sports a horny beak.
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North America's only giant salamander species is having a cotillion.
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It looks like a hand blender mated with a salamander.
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Little did he expect the salavanche (salamander avalanche) to follow.
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Others start goat choirs alongside salamander breeders and literal ducks.
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And sometimes you find frog bones inside your extinct mummified salamander.
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Any harm suffered by salamander populations could have widespread ecological consequences.
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One possibility is that the relationship protects the salamander from pathogens.
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Sirens are a type of large salamander that are completely aquatic.
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Animal images appear in some pieces — fish, birds, even a salamander.
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This tiny salamander is one of the newest (and cutest) additions.
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The tiger salamander in particular throws off gobs of green light.
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The marbled salamander glows particularly bright on its toes and cloaca.
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What can you tell me about your next big novel Hummingbird Salamander?
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What do you have to say about climate change in Hummingbird Salamander?
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Salamander skin also hosts an array of chemicals with potential medical importance.
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Cheat Mountain Salamander (US FWS) The vendors themselves, however, are less convinced.
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It is possible that another physical oddity has helped the salamander persevere.
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"The salamander really doesn't seem too bothered by this [arrangement]," Burns told Gizmodo.
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Essentially nothing extraneous was added to the salamander mucus, according to the authors.
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About 50% of all salamander species in the world come from North America.
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You've just made an adult eastern hellbender, the biggest salamander in North America.
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More speculatively, the arrangement may represent a way for the algae to persist in the salamander over the long haul, and enable the algae to jump from a parent salamander to its offspring in a process known as vertical transmission.
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A political cartoon at the time called attention to the odd, salamander shaped district.
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Fifty percent of all salamander species in the world are found in North America.
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The Jackson's Climbing Salamander is sometimes called the "golden wonder" for its brilliant coloration.
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At the time, it was deemed an unusual salamander, but the idea was dropped.
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Because one of the districts looked like a salamander, partisan maps became known as gerrymandering.
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"The salamander species that holds this title, however, is a relatively large example," Anderson said.
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By March 10, 64 eggs appeared, all of them laid by a single female salamander.
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A rare giant salamander was discovered injured at a sewage treatment plant in Zhengzhou, China.
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Wait, so this is a robot skeleton salamander which is also helping people in need?
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We were here to survey for one of the city's rarest animals, the spotted salamander.
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Kids and adults alike will have a new favorite character in a tiny nameless salamander.
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A spokeswoman for Unaoil in London, Salamander Davoudi, declined to elaborate or make further comment.
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The tiger salamander in white light at left, and fluorescent in blue light at right.
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In the post, the Indiana DWF identified the creature as a lesser siren — an aquatic salamander.
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Scientists hope the ban will help prevent a devastating outbreak from driving native salamander species extinct.
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Looking ahead, the researchers would like to explore how the algae takes root in the salamander.
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The world's largest amphibian is a newly-identified salamander found in a London museum, researchers believe.
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The Indiana Division of Fish and Wildlife confirmed the creature is a lesser siren, an aquatic salamander.
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He went on to praise the reserve that has protected the unwitting salamander species throughout the years.
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The salamander, which appears on the book's cover, re-appears in a different form at the end.
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Analysis of a giant salamander found in a London museum has revealed three new species, researchers say.
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The prey species was always the yellow-spotted salamander, or Ambystoma maculatum, which breeds in the area.
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Though it's not quite the same, the tail regenerates, leaving the salamander almost as good as new.
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Take the Rio Grande siren, a cryptic and nocturnal salamander that spends its days hiding in mud.
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This "represents the only known case of an extinct salamander that fed on a frog," the researchers write.
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A salamander shaped district was drawn in the northern part of the state during the term of Gov.
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She is managing partner of the WNBA's Washington Mystics and the CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts. 11.
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Those species were found again on expeditions in 2009 and 2010, but the Jackson&aposs salamander stayed missing.
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"It is truly amazing to watch an animal like a salamander steadfastly walking for multiple hours," said Denton.
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Higher acceleration and power values have been measured in the tongue of one species of the salamander Bolitoglossa.
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The salamander species can also regenerate their ovaries, lungs, brain, heart, spinal cord and parts of their retina.
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Soon the hashtag was filled with other salamanthusiasts (salamander enthusiasts) sharing pictures and facts of the chunky amphibians.
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Mandica, who notes he is a "huge Ambystoma dork," probably expected the salanami (salamander tsunami) to stop there.
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He makes a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on bread he's toasted in a high-powered salamander oven.
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National GOP leaders met at the Salamander Resort in Virginia over the weekend to discuss the 2018 campaign.
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Dr. Lamb plans to test these ideas out in the tiger salamander, the species she specializes in studying.
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He is one of just a handful of humans to witness the fabled mating ritual of the axolotl salamander.
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The researchers recorded the fatigue point when a salamander could no longer "right" itself when placed on its back.
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Some genes related to slowing down a potent immune response were highly expressed by the salamander in this association.
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For example, the original gerrymander of 1812 — which produced a vaguely salamander-shaped district in Massachusetts to favor Gov.
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No, you're just going to pay $30 to $40 for a salamander that someone got out of the creek.
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Even without these weeks of salabration (salamander celebration), this has been a quite a year for the adorable amphibians.
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I was trained and worked for years in classic restaurant kitchens kitted out with flat-tops and Salamander Grills.
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Tooling around the Hamptons, he drives a Jeep Wrangler with his nickname, the Salamander Commander, emblazoned on the doors.
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The axolotl, a tube-sock-like salamander, was thought to be a god who transformed himself to avoid sacrifice.
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A red-back salamander has the ability to shed its tail if it is grabbed or it feels threatened.
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Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts approved a redistricting scheme that included a State Senate district resembling, some thought, a salamander.
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The species Andrias davidianus, known as the Chinese giant salamander, reach a length of 3.7 feet and 110 pounds.
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And a number of salamander species have been banned from import because a chytrid fungus threatens them, as well.
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The lower court upholding the districts, he said, was fooled by their appealing shape, which looked saner than the salamander-shaped districts that inspired the term "gerrymandering" in the early 19th century (the term mixes "salamander" and "Gerry": in 1812, Elbridge Gerry, a governor, signed a bill redistricting Massachusetts to benefit his party).
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They brought back barred tiger salamanders, which could grow to more than double the size of California's native tiger salamander.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's axolotl salamander can almost magically heal itself, holding the power to regrow its heart and brain.
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Dr. Lips also viewed the salamander ban as a precedent for protecting other species from pathogens that are circulating worldwide.
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These quirks mean the fish is able to walk with a gait that, according to the researchers, resembles a salamander.
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No one witnessed the first salamander wriggling out of its egg, but the event was captured by an infrared camera.
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Bsal has caused major die-offs of salamanders in Europe and poses an imminent threat to U.S. native salamander populations.
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When the salamander was discovered at the Matougang Sewage Plant, it was covered in mud and its tail was injured.
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In the meantime, the United States Geological Survey is monitoring vulnerable salamander populations to catch any early signs of infection.
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The South China salamander is the largest of the three and researchers think it is the largest amphibian alive today.
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The Black Warrior waterdog, an aquatic salamander found in Alabama, should be listed as an endangered species, the agency said.
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"I am finding most of my positivity in regards to salamander conservation when engaging children and the public," Mandica wrote.
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This salamander can heal a crushed spinal cord and have it function just like it did before it was damaged.
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In 1975, Robert Mount's "Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama" described an odd salamander that did not resemble the greater siren.
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There are thousands of colorful reef fish, prehistoric-looking sturgeons, the nation's largest salamander and the feared red-bellied piranha.
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The species was exploited when populations that used the giant salamander moved, creating a trade in the luxury food market.
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"The decline in wild Chinese giant salamander numbers has been catastrophic, mainly due to recent overexploitation for food," Turvey said.
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Why did Pennsylvania's governor think the eastern hellbender salamander, or "snot otter," was worth recognizing as the official state amphibian?
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Locals referred to them as "leopard eels," but these very real sirens belonged to a family of aquatic salamander called Sirenidae.
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Gerry and salamander were mashed together in the public's mind, and just like that, the words "gerrymander" and "gerrymandering" were born.
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Soon the California tiger salamander found itself in danger of being wiped out entirely, and it remains a threatened species today.
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The Jackson&aposs Climbing Salamander ( Bolitoglossa jacksoni ), a brilliant yellow-and-black amphibian, was last seen in 1975 and feared extinct.
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A mature olm (image: Iztok Medja)The olm is an aquatic cave-dwelling salamander and a symbol of Slovenian natural heritage.
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As new research shows, this sticky salamander goo makes for an excellent medical glue, sealing wounds and encouraging them to heal.
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In other words, the front right leg moves at the same time as the back left leg, just like a salamander.
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The shark, which looks like a surly salamander that swallowed a softball and then grew fins, is an albino swell shark.
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Enforcement agents at domestic shipping centers, at airports, and at ports who intercept a salamander will have to check its species.
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Because Bsal poses such a threat to native salamander populations, conservationists and ecologists have been pushing for a ban for years.
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The FWS is also proposing to establish a critical habitat for the salamander that extends along 669 miles of Alabama rivers.
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A team of researchers has discovered of new species of salamander in the pine forests of northern Florida and southern Alabama.
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There's also a gray forest mouse with impressively long whiskers, a wormlike amphibian and a burnt-orange salamander with tiny legs.
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Anderson Cooper, he of the distinguished snow-white hair, tells PEOPLE he sees himself as more "super-pale" salamander than silver fox.
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The group had planned an expedition to the region to search for the salamander in January, but León found the amphibian first.
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As the data revealed, salamander cells containing green algae recognized the algae as foreign, but the salamanders showed no signs of distress.
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Let's start with the good news: Unlike most of your major organs, your liver can regenerate, salamander-like, after it's been damaged.
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I said, 'No, now you're just going to pay $30 to $40 for a salamander that someone got out of the creek.
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The Texas blind salamander is a subterranean-dwelling species found primarily in the San Marcos Pool of the Edwards Aquifer in Texas.
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In addition, the Jackson's climbing salamander (AKA amphibian hide-and-seek champion) was found in Guatemala after an absence of 42 years.
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The nuns make a cough syrup, in the bottle at right, from achoques, a type of salamander vanishing from nearby Lake Patzcuaro.
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He also embarks upon a chaste romance with Yolanda Buenaventura (Natalie Morales), an asexual salamander who works for the Better Business Bureau.
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Spores of the fungus travel through water, and when they find their intended host — the slippery skin of a salamander — they burrow in.
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Its potential to wreak havoc is not hyperbole: North America is home to 50 percent of all the salamander species in the world.
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The 6-foot-long, 140-pound Chinese giant salamander is a being that defies belief—and seemingly the laws of the physical universe.
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Pleurobot is a robotic investigation into the walking gait of Pleurodeles waltl; a type of salamander endemic to the Iberian peninsula in Europe.
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The endangered Shenandoah salamander is found on 6,000 acres of unique habitat within its namesake national park and nowhere else in the world.
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In China, a different species called the Chinese giant salamander is sometimes prized for its alleged benefits to human skin and heart health.
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For an animal covered in mucus and nicknamed the "snot otter," the eastern hellbender salamander is awfully picky about where it will live.
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So in 2013, Dr. Turvey and his colleagues organized a nationwide giant salamander search — apparently the largest wildlife survey ever conducted in China.
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Many of the salamander species tested fluoresced more on their undersides than backs, perhaps an adaptation to keep predators above from noticing them.
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During the 1920s and '30s, when the salamander was still alive, it lived at the Zoological Society of London's Zoo for 20 years.
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One strangely shaped district was said to look like a salamander, and was combined with the governor's name to create the term gerrymander.
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Those tests are not comprehensive (there are more than 400 species of salamander worldwide), but they identified some North American varieties as being vulnerable.
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Finding lost species It was shocking to find the Jackson&aposs salamander so quickly, said Lindsay Renick Mayer, a spokesperson for Global Wildlife Conservation.
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In January, the US Fish and Wildlife Service took the rare step of banning salamander imports, for fear of importing the deadly Bsal fungus.
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Salamander: A Bestiary by Leonard Schwartz, woodcuts by Simon Carr is published by Chax Press and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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The salamander doesn't appear to be negatively affected by its microbial roommates, and in fact the amphibian may even be benefitting from this arrangement.
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So far, scientists studying eDNA have discovered the only cave-dwelling salamander to exist in Europe and Yangtze finless porpoise in China's Yangtze River.
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Protected wildlife species located in proximity to or downstream from the well site are the Eastern Hellbender Salamander, Northern longeared bat, and protected fish.
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Many of them are hard to breed in captivity, he says, so the salamander pet trade might see an uptick in wild-caught salamanders.
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It's called gerrymandering -- a term that arises from a district shaped like a salamander that was drawn during the 1810 term of Massachusetts Gov.
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The green salamander has frilly, fern-like external gills on its head, two front arms, a long eel-like body and no back legs.
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It's from l'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, which also produced the salamander-like Pleurobot and some convincing imitation reptiles for a BBC nature documentary.
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David Muñoz, a Pennsylvania State graduate student, made local headlines by finding that adding glow sticks to minnow traps led to higher salamander catches.
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Sexton was particularly taken with some of the lists' less glamorous creatures, such as the Northern Idaho ground squirrel and the California tiger salamander.
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"This is pretty impressive," said Karen Lips, a salamander expert at the University of Maryland who has been among the scientists calling for a ban.
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He led the company's IPO in 2011, its sale of part of its interest in Tanzania in 2013 and its acquisition of Salamander in 2015.
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The mad roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have produced another biomimetic mechanoid — this one based on the lithe locomotion of the salamander.
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For well over a century, scientists had assumed that this mutually-beneficial arrangement only occurred between the salamander embryo and the algae living outside it.
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Yes, whether we realize it or not, the salamander grill is often the very reason many of us dine out when we want a steak.
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Not to mention sort of disrespectful to the Bible, which doesn't usually get included on the same list as the salamander and the smallmouth bass.
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This marks the first documentation of salamander-eating plants in North America in modern scientific literature, the new study published in Ecology last week noted.
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News Release "Service Lists 201 Salamander Species as Injurious to Help Keep Lethal Fungus Out of U.S." January 12, 2016 Interim rule (pdf) in Federal Register on January 13, 2016 Draft Economic Analysis and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (pdf) List of Salamander Species Designated as Injurious effective on January 12, 2016) (pdf) ESA Section 7 Intra-Agency Consultation (pdf) Environmental Action Statement (pdf) Questions and Answers (pdf)
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A cartoon in The Boston Gazette archly observed that the map resembled a salamander and added a head, wings and claws to bring it to life.
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The ban is intended to protect North American salamanders from a fungus called Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or Bsal, which has been wiping out salamander populations in Europe.
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An article on Tuesday about protecting salamanders in the United States from a deadly fungus misidentified the type of salamander that keeps its gills as adults.
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The South China giant salamander reaches nearly two metres in length and is critically endangered in the wild, according to research published in Ecology and Evolution.
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That's the case in Pennsylvania, where the governor named the hellbender — a two-foot-long, nocturnal salamander nicknamed the "snot otter" — the state's official amphibian, above.
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Two owls, a hellbender salamander and a mountain gorilla were among the other subjects that helped wildlife photographers pick up prizes in a variety of categories.
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In 1813 the governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, approved an electoral district resembling a salamander, inspiring the term "Gerry-Mander" for what became an enduring political ruse.
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This was the case with the "salamander"-shaped district signed into law in 1812 by Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry—the incident that gave the practice its name.
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Vasquez himself had spent more than 3,000 hours hunting for the salamander since 2005, and trained León and his fellow guards on how to search for it.
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"We are very interested in doing more research imaging the algal cells as they enter the salamander tissues and cells," study co-author Ryan Kerney told Gizmodo.
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The Long-limbed Salamander was rediscovered in an area of a low-lying cloud forest in Guatemala in 2014, 40 years after it had last been seen.
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I had all the activities planned: the walk on the mossy path, the search for a salamander that had mysteriously appeared on my doorstep, and a campfire.
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"We need to figure out why and hopefully mimic that in humans," says Northeastern University's James Monaghan, who studies the biology of regeneration in the salamander species.
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Tiny (just two inches long) and lungless, the San Marcos salamander is endemic to Spring Lake and a single pool near the San Marcos River in Texas.
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And then, in March 2018, the salamander geneticist dropped out of contact, so Graham and Steen decided to go ahead with publishing, even with limited genetic information.
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Events like Salamander Days, a traditional competition between dorms named for the amphibians that wander from the campus's nature preserve this time of year, have been postponed.
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That's when they met Andria sligoi, the South China giant salamander, for the first time -- even though the specimen had resided in a museum for 74 years.
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Even still, these salamander organs and frog parts are likely some of the oldest organs preserved in three dimensions in any fossilized vertebrate sample, which is pretty nuts.
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The nonprofit group Global Wildlife Conservation put the Jackson&aposs salamander on its Top 25 "most wanted species" list as part of its Search for Lost Species initiative.
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The good bit about that work is that scientists have used tissue samples and genetics to determine that the salamander is not one species, but at least five.
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SCIENCE TIMES An article on Tuesday about protecting salamanders in the United States from a deadly fungus misidentified the type of salamander that keeps its gills as adults.
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An illustrator at a Boston dinner party is said to have drawn a picture of the district that looked like a salamander, and a political term was born.
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The exhibition shows Tiffany brooches designed by Donald Claflin to look like little Aztec Indians and animal figures — a salamander, bird and lizard — in gold, turquoise and diamonds.
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If they found salamander larvae in the brackish water, among the tufts of razor-edged sawgrass, it won't mean that the species has survived the weather disruptions undamaged.
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And just because these pictures are incredibly cool, check out this one — a gluttonous hog-nosed snake that has eaten a salamander (mid-digestion) and a frog (mid-swallow).
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If he did not exist, 21st-century popular culture would have to invent him: a sentient robot, an empathetic space alien, a warm-blooded salamander with crazy sex appeal.
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Bsal, which is believed to be native to Asia, has already wiped out entire populations of salamander communities in Europe, where the animals have no natural immunity to it.
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The bones and limb angles were carefully tracked — notably, the salamander essentially goes from crawling to walking to swimming simply by doing the same basic motion at higher speeds.
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Kocak, a herpetology enthusiast and illustrator of the Black Mudpuppy webcomic (named after a type of salamander), has drawn hundreds of scientists' avatars on Twitter — including Rabaiotti's and Caruso's.
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There are still a few salamanders that survived the still unexplained Salamander Rapture, and Adkins says conservationists will try to breed and the replenish the ones that are left.
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Image: Robert MurphyGrowing over 5.9 feet (1.8 meters) in length and weighing more than 140 pounds (64 kg), the Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world.
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After that point, the salamander trade might be able to resume again, though there's currently no "sunset clause" in the ban that might allow it to someday become defunct.
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