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Despite being in the scientific spotlight for centuries, the fire salamander’s biofluorescence was overlooked until now.
Fire salamanders—one of Europe's most well-researched amphibians—are biofluorescent, which means they can absorb light from ...
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Scientists crawl through bogs searching for eggs as rare salamander nears an extinction vortex
"We either do this now or we watch them go extinct." ...
When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking ...
Students and faculty at Mary Baldwin University are turning the Shenandoah Valley into a living classroom through hands-on ...
An international research team has discovered that the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is biofluorescent. A study ...
The Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is famous because adults look like overgrown babies, or tadpoles, retaining ...
Scientists have discovered that fire salamanders produce biofluorescent secretions that glow under specific wavelengths of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Palmate newts, thumb-size amphibians found across Western Europe, have developed a remarkable survival ...
The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival abilities: functional brain regeneration.
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