In some lepospondyls, and in frogs and salamanders, the surangular is absent. |
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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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In salamanders, both swimming and ambulatory locomotion involves lateral body bending. |
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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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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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Unlike other tetradactyl salamanders, S. keyserlingii normally has the fifth tarsale, developing to fuse later with the fourth tarsale. |
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Everyone stopped to form wide circles around several fire salamanders that crossed our path. |
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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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The oldest known frogs, salamanders and caecilians are very similar to their living descendants. |
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This certainly appears to be the case in neotenic salamanders, for example. |
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Swimming in salamanders is similar to the undulatory swimming described for elongate fishes. |
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I have kept axotyls, Mexican cave salamanders, mud puppies and once a hellbender. |
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These creatures are prey to vertebrates like birds, mouse opossums, salamanders, and frogs. |
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Sirens are probably the most ancient line of salamanders now alive on planet earth. |
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Examples of these organisms include wood frogs, mole salamanders, and fairy shrimp. |
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The familiar frogs, toads, and salamanders have been present since at least the Jurassic Period. |
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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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Fossil salamanders are known from most extant families, as well as four extinct families. |
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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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Viable woodlands are just as critical as clean waters for frogs, toads, turtles, salamanders, newts, and many species of reptiles. |
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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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Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today. |
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Bodies are long and slender, somewhat like salamanders, with a diphycercal tail. |
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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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The earliest ones looked like giant salamanders, measuring about four feet long, Hedges said. |
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Hedgehogs, porcupines, and some Old World salamanders sport protective spines. |
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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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Sirens and amphiumas are large salamanders that may determine community structure through top-down effects. |
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Lizards, tortoises, salamanders and many other animals all move in this way, but it has disadvantages. |
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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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There were also winged salamanders feasting on flying insects such as flies and mosquitoes. |
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The behavior is presumably similar to the anguilliform swimming of eels and elongate salamanders. |
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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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Both salamanders and Hamilton's frogs care for eggs and young. |
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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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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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Larval salamanders are favorites for doing research on regeneration. |
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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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Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders. |
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Rodents, salamanders, lizards, geckos, and skinks shed their tails. |
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Facultative neoteny also occurs in some species of true salamanders. |
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You can even see deer, giant salamanders and goats, if lucky. |
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Most salamanders deposit aquatic eggs, which hatch into aquatic larvae. |
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The researchers also counted salamanders in nearby tracts that weren't lit. |
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Consider the urodeles, a class of vertebrates that includes newts and salamanders. |
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Specifically, they have been noted to feed on crayfish, frogs, snails, salamanders and leeches. |
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The red-sided garter snake, while harmless to all but the most ophiophobic of humans, is a fearsome predator of frogs, salamanders and slugs. |
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The rest of the Lissamphibia evolved in this period, introducing the first salamanders and caecilians. |
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Running brooks with rocky bottoms are often inhabited by plentiful amounts of crayfish and salamanders. |
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Wood frogs and mole salamanders only breed in these temporary bodies of water and rely on them as nurseries for their young. |
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This week, I'm looking at spring peepers, wood frogs and spotted salamanders. |
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Etnier and Starnes listed salamanders as effective natural baits for black basses, Micropterus spp. |
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The forebrain is well developed and subdivided in most tetrapods, while the midbrain dominates in many fish and some salamanders. |
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Leaf litterbags are effective in the capture of stream salamanders without negatively altering the habitat. |
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Almost every weeknight, while Zach's out galavanting around rubbing butts with salamanders. |
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A new species of subterranean blind salamander from Austin, Texas and a systematic revision of central Texas paedomorphic salamanders. |
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To the attics where thin pink salamanders writhed through crushed red Xmas balls and turned all silver and red and Xmassy. |
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The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes. |
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Because of habitat loss, pollution, and overharvesting, the population of wild Chinese giant salamanders has dropped sharply. |
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They compared the forces experienced by the pectoral fins of the mudskipper fishes to the forelimbs and hind limbs of walking tiger salamanders. |
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Over-water transport could introduce other salamanders from the mainland to Santarosae. |
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Aquatic animals, from fish to salamanders, are generally able to live with a low amount of oxygen in the water. |
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She also doesn't know why her spotted salamanders appear to prefer to inbreed. |
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Look for plenty of wildlife here, including 60 species of birds, rabbits, raccoons, raptors, salamanders, snakes, toads, turtles, and white-tailed deer. |
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Chytridiomycosis has now been reported from 38 amphibian species in 12 families, including ranid and hylid frogs, bufonid toads, and plethodontid salamanders. |
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The choanal glands of caecilians open at the margin of the choanae, whereas those of salamanders open deep within the choanae at the margin of the olfactory epithelium. |
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They feed on amphibians, such as frogs, newts, and salamanders. |
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Several groups of dead sand lizardfolk were scattered across their path. Sand lizardfolk, or salamanders, were the desert cousins to the normal lizardman or lizardfolk. |
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The family of salamanders known as plethodontids are unusual in many ways. |
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Several taxa of plethodontid salamanders exist as complexes of parapatrically distributed, genetically differentiated populations with sharp clines at the contact zone. |
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Species infected with Bd covered a wide phylogenetic range including four species of plethodontid salamanders, three species of toads, five hylid frogs, and four ranid frogs. |
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Common natural baits for both fresh and saltwater fishing include worms, leeches, minnows, frogs, salamanders, octopus, squid, insects and even prawn. |
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