How To Use Salamander In A Sentence
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The familiar frogs, toads, and salamanders have been present since at least the Jurassic Period.
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The dusky salamander lives in the southern Appalachian Mountains, and likes to stay at home.
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Many species of the salamander genus Bolitoglossa are arboreal (tree living), rather than typically terrestrial, and their feet are modified for climbing on smooth surfaces.
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The snot otter, a.k.a. hellbender, is a giant salamander that oozes a slightly toxic slime.
Green Movement's New Mascot: the Slimy Snot Otter
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As frogs, toads, salamanders, and snakes emerge from hibernation, encourage them to stay around your garden and help control pests.
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These salamanders are natatorial and motile.
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A similar story can be told for several other species of toads, frogs, salamanders, alligators, and turtles around the world.
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Torrent salamanders are characterized by unique squared-off glands behind the vent in adult males.
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If you don't own a 1.75m tall machine from Catalonia but have a large enough salamander you can mimic, but not match, this method by grilling entire joints: legs of lamb, ribs of beef, suckling pigs, etc.
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Even remnants of last meals were preserved, such as the bellyful of shrimp fossilized inside one 8-centimeter-long larval salamander.
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Reaching lengths of over two feet in length and weighing over 3 lbs., the hellbender is the largest amphibian species found in North America and the third largest salamander in the world, coming in behind the Chinese and the Japanese giant salamanders which are truly massive.
David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits
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Scientists like Shubin, Gao, and Carroll say they are attracted to the study of salamanders because the amphibians give them a window to see how evolutionary mechanisms work.
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These pools as well as the deeper water areas of the sedge meadow provide breeding habitat for chorus frogs, spring peepers, and smallmouth salamanders.
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If a salamander is to swim straight, the action of these muscle fibers must be balanced by muscle fibers dorsal to the vertebral centra, presumably in the epaxial musculature.
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In very truth, thought Grainier, it is a salamandera nymphtis a goddessa bacchante of Mount Mæ nalus!
III. Besos Para Golpes. Book II
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Irish elk W 1891 O megacerotine (extinct) salamandrine salamander Irish elk 1884 OW 1712-1888 OW megatherine (extinct) sciurine squirrel 1842 -
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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The lectures offered include one about reptiles and amphibians native to Kentucky, which includes a chance for the children to handle live, non-venomous snakes, lizards, salamanders, toads and frogs.
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Li Shan supports warm temperate forest that is reported to provide habitat for several rare vertebrates including Chinese populations of rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), musk deer (Moschus berezovskii), giant salamander (Megalobatrachus davidiana), and Koklass pheasant (Pucrasia macrolopha).
Central China loess plateau mixed forests
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Isolated retinal bipolar cells from tiger salamanders act like adaptive filters: at resting potential, their response gain and time constant are maximal, and transfer functions are lowpass.
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Salamanders, which thrive in moist environments that keep their skin wet, number 2 dozen species, from the pigmy salamander that is less than 2 inches at maturity to the hellbender, which is nearly 30 inches.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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The team of scientists, who work for Reptile and Amphibian Ecology International, also identified four new species of stick insect, three species of lungless salamanders, a tiny, scaly-eyed gecko known as Lepidoblepharis buschwaldii and a bushmaster, which is the longest viper in the world.
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The producers also found it necessary to insert that wearisome kidvid standby, the cute animal mascot (this time, it's a salamander-like rock-eating dog named Obby), to amuse the toddlers.
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Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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Althouse: "Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love.
"Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
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At the same time, state leaders are facing countervailing pressures from reform-minded groups that want to lessen the impact of partisan politics on a process that has been plagued for decades by shenanigans - and symbolized by the oddly shaped district maps that take their nickname "gerrymander" from an early 19th-century Massachusetts governor, Elbridge Gerry, who drew the first one in the shape of a salamander.
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Egg size, the zoological counterpart of seed size, has not been nearly as well studied, but is known to correlate positively with genome size in cladoceran crustaceans and plethodontid salamanders.
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Amphibians such as frogs, toads, and salamanders are undergoing rapid population declines, most likely due to fungal disease, climate change, habitat loss, and pollution.
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The study finds 122 species of frogs, toads, salamanders and legless amphibians have probably become extinct since 1980 and warns that a third of all amphibian species currently face the same fate.
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Or were his visions of an English "reefer" being thrashed on his own ship by a young American prisoner, who was thereafter to write his name in history as "Salamander" Farragut?
Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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These amphibians, like modern frogs and salamanders, hatched from eggs and spent their larval period in the water as tadpoles.
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Turtles, crayfish, snails, fish, salamanders, American chameleons, newts, insects, bacteria, and algae all can be successfully raised in the River Tank, but questions remain as to which ones can coexist, and for how long, before being eaten by another inhabitant.
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The exemplar of salamander paedomorphosis is the Mexican axolotl.
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A number of salamanders, such as the North American ‘mudpuppy’ and the Mexican axolotl, develop legs but retain their larval gills and stay in the water throughout their lifetimes.
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As a curial is a gentleman and a government magistrate, the punishment is just enough; but why should Cassiodorus (certainly not King Dietrich) finish a short letter by a long dissertation on volcanoes in general, and Stromboli in particular, insisting on the wonder that the rocks, though continually burnt, are continually renewed by 'the inextricable potency of nature;' and only returning to Jovinus to inform him that he will henceforth follow the example of a salamander, which always lives in fire, 'being so contracted by natural cold, that it is tempered by burning flame.
Roman and the Teuton
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Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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The Southwest Center folks want to see the jaguar listed and critical habitat designated for the salamander and owl.
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Red-backed salamanders, Plethodon cinereus, use territorial advertisement in the form of agonistic displays and pheromonal scent marking as a mechanism for intraspecific interference competition.
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Rodents, salamanders, lizards, geckos, and skinks shed their tails.
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There were also winged salamanders feasting on flying insects such as flies and mosquitoes.
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In his newly renovated laboratory on the second floor of the Lillie Building, Dionne is studying the sense of smell in the mud puppy, a large freshwater salamander.
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Finally, where residual populations of tiger salamanders have survived despite the odds in still isolated locations, they have become a target of the pet trade.
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'Bes' go an 'rub a bit more chilli powder on them salamanders or their tails'll be hangin' off 'em next.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Walking the debauched Jahilian streets, his heart full of bile, Hamza has seen men and women in the guise of eagles, jackals, horses, gryphons, salamanders, wart -- hogs, rocs; welling up from the murk of the alleys have come two-headed amphisbaenae and the winged bulls known as Assyrian sphinxes.
The Satanic Verses
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Salamanders have a smooth, moist skin which distinguishes them from lizards, which have a dry scaly skin.
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Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today.
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Most salamanders deposit aquatic eggs, which hatch into aquatic larvae.
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Among the world's varied creatures, a Mexican salamander called the axolotl appears best at regrowing whole limbs lost to injury.
Medlogs - Recent stories
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It is when she feels compassion, rather than revulsion, for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.
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All plethodontids are also lungless (lunglessness and reduced lungs are independently derived in the few other salamander species showing this character).
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Their steep slopes are the nearest thing to a rainforest in Europe, overflowing with springs and pools which are home to salamanders and newts.
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The only other vertebrate animals to show an efficient form of self-mutilation are certain amphibians, especially salamanders.
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To avoid predators, some animals - like some snakes, salamanders or frogs - restrict their movements under a full moon and tend to hunt more on moonless nights.
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And, then, there's the discussion of the Ohio "proteus," which appears to puzzle the editor, who doesn't seem aware that "proteus" was commonly used historically as a generic term for aquatic salamanders.
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In the caves of Slovenia, he encounters the peculiar creature known as the olm, a cave-dwelling blind salamander once believed to be a baby dragon.
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Both salamanders and Hamilton's frogs care for eggs and young.
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When salamanders invaded the Dinaric Karst: convergence, history, and reinvention of the troglobitic olm
Archive 2006-03-01
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Amphibians such as frogs, toads, and salamanders are undergoing rapid population declines, most likely due to fungal disease, climate change, habitat loss, and pollution.
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Important amphibian species occurring within the site include alpine salamander Salamandra atra and Alpine newt Triturus alpestris.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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Frogs and salamanders constitute another lower class, called the amphibia, whose members are gilled during the earlier stages of development.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope
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Accipenser and Ceratodus, and also the salamanders and batrachia, belong to the old, conservative groups of our stem.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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The salamander lashed its tail like a whip and vanished.
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Gardener snakes, grass snakes, ground beetles, box turtles, salamanders, ducks, and larvae of lightning bugs all feed on snails.
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The elements were inhabited by spirits - the air by sylphs, the water by nymphs or undines, the earth by gnomes, the fire by salamanders.
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Among vertebrates, only the cartilaginous fishes, lungfishes and amphibians (especially salamanders) possess exceptionally large C-values.
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Species seen included black rat snake, ribbon snake, milk snake, gray tree frog, green frog, pickerel frog, wood frog, spring peeper, mountain dusky salamander, and the rare and beautiful long-tailed salamander.
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Fossil salamanders are known from most extant families, as well as four extinct families.
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Why fly to Biddy Salamander and Bulkabra, when the Queen of Beauty and Count D'Orsay have equally urgent claims on the attention and sympathies of the civiliser?
Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841
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Another family, the Ambystomatidae occurs in the New World from Canada to central Mexico and includes the tiger salamander and the axolotl.
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Salamander Energy struck oil in Thailand.
Times, Sunday Times
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Living relatives include the Asian giant salamander, which can grow as big as a small human adult, and the smaller hellbender of North America.
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A similar story can be told for several other species of toads, frogs, salamanders, alligators, and turtles around the world.
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Tropidophorus is a genus of keeled skinks (thus the mention of thornlike scales, which salamanders don't have). posted by Chad Arment @ 11: 30 AM
Archive 2006-12-01
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Direct development and viviparity have evolved in all three groups of Lissamphibia: frogs, salamanders and caecilians.
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Veteran East Texas anglers long have relied on the waterdog or mudpuppy, which is the larval form of an aquatic salamander to haul in lunker largemouth bass, and crawfish, which love rocky structure, are the No. 1 live bait for smallmouths no matter where you are.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines
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It required the extraordinary acumen of the great Cuvier at once to recognize, when the first specimens [v. 03 p. 0069] of the _Gyrinus edulis_ or _Axolotl_ of Mexico were brought to him by Humboldt in the beginning of the 19th century, that these Batrachians were not really related to the Perennibranchiates, such as _Siren_ and _Proteus_, with which he was well acquainted, but represented the larval form of some air-breathing salamander.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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Like the majority of frogs and toads, many salamanders undergo an obligate metamorphosis that allows for the exploitation of both aquatic and terrestrial habitats during ontogeny.
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The blind salamander (Proteus anguinus), also known as the olm, has the longest lifespan of any amphibian, often living to over 70 in zoos, and with a predicted maximum age of over 100.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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While the unisexual salamanders usually reproduce through cloning, they "borrow" salamander sperm from other species to stimulate egg production.
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Place gratineed stacks under a salamander or broiler until top is browned.
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Their steep slopes are the nearest thing to a rainforest in Europe, overflowing with springs and pools which are home to salamanders and newts.
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Bodies are long and slender, somewhat like salamanders, with a diphycercal tail.
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He picks up the tiny sprig with the half-eaten salamander still perched on it and holds it four inches from his mouth, enumerating the various classifications of the creature: the coloring, the reticulations, the patterns, the species.
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The assistant cooks toyed with salamanders and spits without interest.
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True salamanders live in burrows under logs or stones in moist woodlands and subalpine meadows, emerging only on mild, damp nights.
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Maximum parsimony analysis of this latter data set also recovered monophyly of living amphibians and favored a frog + salamander (Batrachia) relationship.
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Sermonti therefore argues that neotenic organisms - in which juvenile traits persist into adulthood, e.g. gills in adult salamanders - must be archaic, because their features appear earlier in development.
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I have kept axotyls, Mexican cave salamanders, mud puppies and once a hellbender.
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Salamander (1879) in terza rime is especially memorable.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1910 - Presentation Speech
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Dutch researcher, van Hogenhouck, published a report at the same time in which he classified these covered-gilled giant newts in the order of proper newts or tritons under the name of megatriton molucccanus and established that they were distributed throughout the Dutch-Sundanese islands of Jilolo, Morotai and Ceram; there was also a report by the French scientist Dr. Mignard who saw them as typical salamanders and concluded that they had originated in the
The War with the Newts
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This certainly appears to be the case in neotenic salamanders, for example.
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The cornerstone of any Salamander book, however, is the illustrations - both the pictures of aircraft types and the excellent cutaway drawings.
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A newt is a salamander commonly found in or near freshwater in Africa.
Keith Thomson: Newt Gingrich: Born in Kenya?
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The biology and evolution of unisexual mole salamanders has become a contentious and much-debated subject.
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Salamanders were measured from the tip of the snout to the anterior end of the cloaca.
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Of practical interest to humans, said Carroll, is the salamander's ability to regenerate limbs.
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Adult salamanders that feed in water possess both ampullary organs and neuromasts, and probably use both to direct their feeding strikes, in addition to visual, olfactory, and tactile cues.
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By inhibiting such a current after amputating a salamander's leg, they can, in effect, flip a switch that shuts down the process of regrowth.
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Above the oblong was a salamander, the Kings particular device, with many other ornaments appropriate to the Ionic architecture of the whole design.
XXI
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At least 10 of the 16 original species of amphibians (frogs, toads and salamanders) survived the eruption.
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Characters: Tadpoles, Chicks, Mother Hen, Shrimp, Frog, Salamander, Crab, Tortoise, Baby tortoise and Goldfish.
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Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today.
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The omelette is then fried in the usual way; but it is usually served without doubling it up, sugar being grated over the upper side after it is put in the dish, which is then set in front of the fire for a few minutes, or the omelette is browned by holding over it a flat red-hot iron called a salamander.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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A novel antipredator mechanism in salamanders: rolling escape in Hydromantes platycephalus.
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The survey also featured 2,273 rabbits, 1,757 hamsters, 482 parrots and macaws, 233 ferrets, 81 donkeys and 47 newts and salamanders.
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Here, we use salamander pheromone delivery as a test case for dissecting the evolutionary dynamics at multiple levels in a functional complex.
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Unlike other tetradactyl salamanders, S. keyserlingii normally has the fifth tarsale, developing to fuse later with the fourth tarsale.
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Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today.
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Against moonlight on the back of my windows, as on photographic plates, appear the silhouettes of salamanders, perhaps a dozen of them, facing this way and that.
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Above the oblong was a salamander, the Kings particular device, with many other ornaments appropriate to the Ionic architecture of the whole design.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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Hedgehogs, porcupines, and some Old World salamanders sport protective spines.
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There are three extant orders in the Class Amphibia: Anura (frogs and toads), Caudata (salamanders), and Apoda (caecilians).
Amphibian
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Irish elk W 1891 O megacerotine (extinct) salamandrine salamander Irish elk 1884 OW 1712-1888 OW megatherine (extinct) sciurine squirrel 1842 -
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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Some birds, turtles, and salamanders can get back on track even after researchers enclose them in windowless containers and move them by a twisted route to an unfamiliar place.
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She is right, Jason," the Salamander said merrily, making her turn her head so suddenly to look at it that she nearly overset her coffee-cup.
Red dust
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Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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CELL FROM A SALAMANDER. _n_, nucleus; _n'_, nucleolus embedded in the network of chromatin threads; _k_, network of the cell external to the nucleus; _a_, attraction-sphere or archoplasm containing minute bodies called centrosomes; _cl_, membrane enclosing the cell externally, _nl_, membrane surrounding the nucleus;
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
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The ‘true salamanders’ tend to be smooth skinned, while the newts are unlike all other salamanders in having rough skin that is not slimy.
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Researchers working in the Biodiversity Research and Training (BRT) programme have discovered a new species of salamander featuring a short tail with thornlike scales.
Archive 2006-12-01
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Partly because of my reading-up on other areas of direct interest (like cryptic diversity [see previous post], the discovery of new species, declines in global biodiversity, Cretaceous biogeography, radical homoplasy, polymorphism, and evolutionary reversals), I am returning again and again to the salamander literature.
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Some gobies even rely on chemical protection, producing a poison called tetrodotoxin, which also occurs in pufferfishes and species of salamander.
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In 1890, Dubois confirmed that blinded salamanders displayed an aversion to shorter wavelengths of light, and. in 1895, Finsen extended the results to frogs, earthworms, woodlice, beetles and flies.
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Oxygen uptake can also occur through the skin and the mouth membranes (as in the plethodontids, the lung-less salamanders).
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Most of the LHM in salamanders is located ventral to the vertebral centra, and therefore will tend to bend the body in the sagittal plane.
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By one count, 1 in 3 of the 5,743 known species of frog, toad, salamander, and other amphibians are dwindling.
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She drops the used colander into the dishwashing tub stationed beneath the salamander, notes that the tray is full, and carries it to the plonge, returning with an empty one.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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The ‘true salamanders’ tend to be smooth skinned, while the newts are unlike all other salamanders in having rough skin that is not slimy.
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But this eye is by no means as developed as the organ of vision, for instance, of the water salamander (the triton) or of the so-called axolotl, for it exists only in a kind of embryonic development, and contains neither a vitreous humor nor a lens for the refraction of the rays of light.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
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A number of salamanders, such as the North American ‘mudpuppy’ and the Mexican axolotl, develop legs but retain their larval gills and stay in the water throughout their lifetimes.
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The closest relative of the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders is the hellbender of the eastern US.
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For example, in the case of seasonal land migration of certain salamanders, if the length of the corridor is greater than the characteristic travel capability of the salamander, then the corridor is ineffective in providing additional aestivation opportunities.
Biological corridor
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Direct-developing and normal biphasic frogs have slightly larger genomes, followed by biphasic, then direct-developing, and finally facultatively and then obligately neotenic salamanders.
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Remove pork from cooking liquid, cut into cubes and heat under salamander or broiler until sizzling.
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Salamanders are carnivores, feeding on insects, worms, and similar prey.
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While Natasha helped her friend up, he streaked after the salamander, which moved surprisingly fast for such a little, young thing.
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Later, when she and Hanson were planting native plants such as salal and salmonberry along the trail, she saw adult salamanders.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
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Smaller non-cannibalistic salamanders respond to conspecific cannibals as a threat, and presumably forage less to decrease the likelihood of being detected and eaten by the larger cannibal forms.
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While salamanders with ballistic tongue projection rarely miss their target, frogs that use ballistic projection can be highly inaccurate.
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The only other vertebrate animals to show an efficient form of self-mutilation are certain amphibians, especially salamanders.
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Salamander Energy struck oil in Thailand.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smallest lizard they show in the encyclopedia is about six inches long, and it says lizards are reptiles and have scales and claws and should not be confused with salamanders, which are amphibians and have thin moist skin and no claws.
It's Like This, Cat
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They are also odd among salamanders in that some species can drop the tail as a predator-defence mechanism (properly called caudal autotomy), and in that some species have only four toes on the hindfeet.
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Will she call on salamanders and sylphs as well, I wonder?
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At times a manikin of light, at times in the shape of the mundane salamander that bore the same name, this was the eyes and ears of the mage who had conjured it.
Red dust
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In salamanders, both swimming and ambulatory locomotion involves lateral body bending.
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Since salamanders are amphibians, their skins are sensitive to being dried out; therefore they are found in or near water and damp places.
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The availability of many unusual species has led to more people considering keeping these animals in their homes, and tarantulas, iguanas, salamanders and snakes are all becoming more and more popular as pets.
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Was she salamander or sylph, naiad or undine, oread or dryad?
There & Back
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Extreme morphological and ecological homoplasy in tropical salamanders.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Interestingly, while some amphibians like newts and salamanders are very effective at regenerating limbs, they are not as effective at regenerating tissue to repair damaged internal organs.
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Sirens are probably the most ancient line of salamanders now alive on planet earth.
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While hiking, canoeing, kayaking, or eating a picnic lunch, watch for Gulf Coast spiny softshell turtles, loggerhead shrikes, pileated woodpeckers, Seminole bats, and spotted salamanders.
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Larval salamanders are favorites for doing research on regeneration.
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Swimming in salamanders is similar to the undulatory swimming described for elongate fishes.
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Morphological homoplasy, life history evolution, and historical biogeography of plethodontid salamanders inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes.
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The results show that red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus), garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) and gastropod abundance as well as invertebrate richness (no. of species or higher level taxa) were higher in control than in exclosure plots.
Deer and gastropods revisited
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These amphibians, like modern frogs and salamanders, hatched from eggs and spent their larval period in the water as tadpoles.
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Direct development and viviparity have evolved in all three groups of Lissamphibia: frogs, salamanders and caecilians.
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The springs contain the only remaining populations of two small fish, the fountain darter and the San Marcos gambusia; the Texas blind salamander; the San Marcos salamander; the Comal Springs Riffle beetle, the Comal Springs Dryopid beetle, the Peck's cave amphipod, an invertebrate; and Texas wild-rice.
KansasCity.com: Front Page
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The behavior is presumably similar to the anguilliform swimming of eels and elongate salamanders.
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She likes to flip through cooking magazines and recipe books, looking at glossy pictures of cupcakes or strange Japanese dishes, such as broiled salamander on a stick.
Undefined
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Also, I am still trying to get you to commit to say something with regard to P-cells in lungfish, salamanders etc, which should really stand out with respect to P-cell arborization given their massive genomes.
Another unintelligent move - The Panda's Thumb
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Unisexual salamanders are polyploids, meaning they have more than two sets of chromosomes.
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Or there's the time we kept a huge golden-spotted salamander successfully in a terrarium for a whole year, or the summer we watched as a huge spider rebuilt a beautiful orb web in our upstairs bathroom window each night.
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Lizards, tortoises, salamanders and many other animals all move in this way, but it has disadvantages.
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The survey also featured 2,273 rabbits, 1,757 hamsters, 482 parrots and macaws, 233 ferrets, 81 donkeys and 47 newts and salamanders.
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The oldest known frogs, salamanders and caecilians are very similar to their living descendants.
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We had encountered that blasting wind known as the "sirocco" -- the scourge of the Mediterranean -- which after gathering force and heat in the African deserts comes with its fiery and sand-laden breath to sap the moisture from all who have not the natures of salamanders.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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It closely resembles the North American hellbender, a salamander with large, flat head that can grow more than 2 feet long.
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Tiger salamanders often become neotenic (retaining their larval forms) even reproducing as larvae, and only rarely metamorphosing into terrestrial adults.
Adaptations of desert amphibians and reptiles
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Fortunately, though, the virus has not proved to be as harmful to salamanders as B. dendrobatidis has been to frogs and toads.
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Remove from oven and place under salamander until golden brown.
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In salamanders, the blood vessels contract quickly and limit bleeding when a limb is cut. Skin cells quickly cover the wound and form what is called a blastema.
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The latter gave rise to land vertebrates, some of which, such as the Mexican axolotl salamanders, retained electrosense ability.
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These salamanders undergo a typical amphibian life cycle, wherein they hatch from the egg in an aquatic-larval form and eventually undergo a metamorphosis through which they achieve a terrestrial adult form.
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Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love.
Archive 2007-12-01
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The Science Center of Connecticut in West Hartford loaned a Bengal tiger, a mud puppy (a type of salamander), a period bird's egg cabinet, again without provenance, and various shells and fossils.
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These spirits are supposed to be of four distinct kinds, as the elements from which they have their origin, and are known, to those who have studied the cabalistical philosophy, by the names of Sylphs, Gnomes, Salamanders, and
The Monastery
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Probably a lot of people would recognize other Ambystoma; they include the tiger salamander and the axlotl.
Archive 2008-05-01
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The Mexican axolotl (pronounced ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) salamander has the rare trait of retaining its larval features throughout its adult life.
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Crommet Creek has prolific knotweed, salt marsh gerardia, dwarf glasswort, four-toed salamanders and hog-nosed snakes; all rare species in the state.
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
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Viable woodlands are just as critical as clean waters for frogs, toads, turtles, salamanders, newts, and many species of reptiles.
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Adult salamanders may be aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial in their habits, and many otherwise terrestrial species seasonally enter water to breed.
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In Iowa, what many people call mud puppies are the waterdogs, the larvae of our tiger salamander.
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The Southwest Center folks want to see the jaguar listed and critical habitat designated for the salamander and owl.
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Many years ago, my father told me that at the English College in Rome, young would-be priests were told about the pagan legend of the Salamander - the mythical lizard that walked into fire and quenched the flames by the power of its virtue.
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There were several instances when centipedes appeared to sample the shed skin or fecal pellets of a salamander with their antennae.
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The Mexican axolotl (pronounced ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) salamander has the rare trait of retaining its larval features throughout its adult life.
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Viable woodlands are just as critical as clean waters for frogs, toads, turtles, salamanders, newts, and many species of reptiles.
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Now imagine eating something that is a quarter long as your body, which is the size ratio between the red-legged salamander and the waxworm.
David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits
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[242] The sect of the Cabalists, indeed, believed in the existence of spirits of nature, embodiments or representatives of the four elements, which they called respectively gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and ondines.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
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Secondary regrowth, however, has begun to offer opportunities for dispersal for a wide range of taxa, although significant movements of less vagile species such as salamanders, wildflowers, and land snails might require centuries.
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
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There are three types left on the planet-the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders and a much smaller American giant salamander called the hellbender
Conservation International - Feature Articles
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The elements were inhabited by spirits - the air by sylphs, the water by nymphs or undines, the earth by gnomes, the fire by salamanders - and by many other spiritual or supernatural beings, such as syrens, nenuphar, lorins, etc.
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The familiar frogs, toads, and salamanders have been present since at least the Jurassic Period.
