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Introduction1
The Wild Report (YouTube Channel)
Dictionary
salamander : any of numerous amphibians (order Caudata) superficially resembling lizards but scaleless and covered with a soft moist skin and breathing by gills in the larval stage — Webster See also OneLook
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela. Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains. Salamanders rarely have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults. — Wikipedia
Salamander (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Browse Salamander Family (AmphibiaWeb, University of California, Berkeley)
Amphibians (David B. Wake & Michelle S. Koo, Current Biology)
Meet Amphibians (AmphibiaWeb, University of California, Berkeley)
AmphibiaWeb’s Illustrated Amphibians of the Earth (AmphibiaWeb, University of California, Berkeley)
AmphibiaWeb (YouTube Channel)
Salamanders and Newts (One Zoom)
Caudata (Catalogue of Life)
Salamander (WolframAlpha)
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Innovation
Science
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Birds, which are cladistically included within Reptilia, are traditionally excluded here; the scientific study of birds is the subject of ornithology. Thus, the definition of herpetology can be more precisely stated as the study of ectothermic (cold-blooded) tetrapods. Under this definition “herps” (or sometimes “herptiles” or “herpetofauna”) exclude fish, but it is not uncommon for herpetological and ichthyological scientific societies to collaborate. — Wikipedia
Herpetology (Encyclopædia Britannica)
126 questions with answers in Herpetology (Research Gate)
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Preservation
Library
DDC: 597.85 Salamandridae (Library Thing)
Subject: Salamanders (Library Thing)
Subject: Salamanders (Open Library)
LCC: QL 668.C2 Salamanders (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Salamanders (UPenn Online Books)
LCC: QL 668.C2 Salamanders (Library of Congress)
Subject: Salamanders (Library of Congress)
Subject: Salamanders (WorldCat)
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Participation
Education
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Community
Occupation
Sam Noble Museum (YouTube Channel)
Sam Noble Museum (Official Website)
How to be a Herpetologist (Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)
Organization
World Congress of Herpetology
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
The Herpetologists’ League
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Zoological Association of America
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
News
Journal of Herpetology (Society for Study of Amphibians and Reptiles)
Herpetologica (The Herpetologists’ League)
Ichthyology & Herpetology (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists)
Herpetology (Nature)
Salamander (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Salamander (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Salamander (Science Daily)
Salamander (Science News)
Salamander (Phys.org)
Salamander (NPR Archives)
Government
North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (US Geological Survey)
Document
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A trio of evolutionary biologists, two with Carleton University, the other with Seoul National University, has apparently solved the paradox of aposematism—how animals managed to evolve with bright colors to warn predators of their toxic nature. In their paper study, published in the journal Science, Karl Loeffler-Henry, Changku Kang and Thomas Sherratt, conducted an analysis of the family tree of over 1,000 frog, salamander and newt species.
- Rapid surge in highly contagious killer fungus...on March 15, 2023 at 5:00 am
Mass fungus infections that drive populations worldwide to near-collapse don't just occur in science fiction. Chytridiomycosis, the worst vertebrate disease in recorded history, has already wiped out hundreds of species of amphibians around the world. Due to a large part to this fungal disease, 41% of amphibians are currently threatened with extinction. Only species living in Africa seemed to have been relatively spared from the scourge of chytridiomycosis—at least so far.
- Regenerating bone with deer antler stem cellson March 14, 2023 at 4:12 pm
Scientists from a collection of Chinese research institutions collaborated on a study of organ regeneration in mammals, finding deer antler blastema progenitor cells are a possible source of conserved regeneration cells in higher vertebrates. Published in the journal Science, the researchers suggest the findings have applications in clinical bone repair. With the activation of key characteristic genes, it could potentially be used in regenerative medicine for skeletal, long bone or limb […]
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