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Aug. 17, 2022 —Researchers find that Plethodontidae, a dominant family of salamanders, all of which are lungless as adults, actually develop lungs as embryos shedding light on the evolution of lung loss over ...
Oct. 5, 2021 —A new study gives insight into how limb development evolved in vertebrates. The findings identify a gene that plays a central role in the evolution of limb development in vertebrates. By manipulating ...
May 13, 2021 —A team of evolutionary biologists has shown that Anolis lizards, or anoles, are able to breathe underwater with the aid of a bubble clinging to their snouts. Some anoles are stream specialists, and ...
Mar. 17, 2021 —The abundance and other characteristics of rocks partially extending above the water surface could be important for improving the recovery of aquatic insect populations in restored ...
Nov. 3, 2022 —New research addresses a long-standing question in pulmonary medicine about whether modern ventilators overstretch lung ...
Dec. 8, 2020 —A study of pond sites in the Cascades found greater amphibian diversity in sites with beaver damns. Red-legged frogs and northwestern salamanders, which develop more slowly, were detected almost ...
July 19, 2022 —Three new species of black-bellied salamander have been discovered. The new salamanders, which are found in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States, stem from black-bellied ...
Oct. 13, 2021 —Researchers discovered that 50 percent fewer frogs died from vehicle collisions in Maine in spring 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, that during the season in other recent years. They also ...
Jan. 4, 2023 —A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same 'jumping genes', scientists have ...
May 23, 2022 —Researchers have documented in a vertical wind tunnel the amazing ability of one species of salamander -- which spends its entire life in the tops of redwoods -- to parachute, glide and maneuver in ...