Search results for Salamander

Plants & Animals Jun 11, 2020

Using DNA to look for fish species

Researchers from Biomon have used DNA techniques to find 40 different species of fish in the river Dommel. This technique is capable of detecting more species than conventional methods of measuring.

Plants & Animals Jun 9, 2020

Oregon timber harvests don't appear to affect rare salamander, study finds

A seven-year field experiment on 88 tree stands across Oregon's western Cascade Range found no discernable difference in the abundance and occupancy rates of rare Oregon slender salamanders on recently harvested tree stands—clear-cuts—compared ...

Plants & Animals May 29, 2020

Taking a deep look into animals

Advances in neuroscience research and microscopy: a collaborative project driven by researchers of the Max Perutz Labs Vienna, a joint venture of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, and the TU Wien ...

Archaeology May 13, 2020

Fossil footprints found in Sydney suburb are from the earliest swimming tetrapods in Australia

Fossil footprints discovered nearly 80 years ago in a sandstone quarry at Berowra have been identified as the traces of a four-legged animal swimming in a river nearly a quarter of a billion years ago.

Cell & Microbiology May 12, 2020

How do you prevent viral outbreaks? By protecting animal health

Many dangerous diseases such as COVID-19, Ebola and Q fever have jumped from animals to humans. But it is not only because of these diseases that we should include animals in our health policy, but also because of their right ...

Archaeology May 12, 2020

Triassurus sixtelae fossil found in Kyrgyzstan is the oldest salamander ever found

Three researchers from Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg and Urweltmuseum GEOSKOP/Burg Lichtenberg, all in Germany, have found the oldest salamander fossil ever ...

Plants & Animals Apr 28, 2020

Minor evolutionary changes helped transform the salamander tongue into a fast elastic recoil mechanism

A team of researchers from the University of South Florida and California State University Stanislaus has found that just a few minor evolutionary changes led to the development of the superfast salamander tongue. In their ...

Plants & Animals Apr 17, 2020

Earth Day alert to save our frogs

With climate action a theme of Earth Day 2020 (22 April 2020), a new research paper highlights the plight of some of the most at-risk amphibian species—and shortfalls in most conservation efforts.

Plants & Animals Apr 13, 2020

Wildlife conservation in a time of pandemic

Wildlife conservation is a type of work without end. It's ongoing. It revolves around time—while racing against it. Pausing amid a global pandemic isn't an option, because that could mean the difference between saving endangered ...

Ecology Apr 8, 2020

New information about the transmission of the amphibian pathogen, Bsal

Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture's Amphibian Disease Laboratory are working to understand—and hopefully get ahead of—highly contagious pathogens affecting amphibians in Europe and Asia. ...

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