On an acre of forest, thousands of salamanders may be foraging among the leaf litter, under logs, and in creeks hunting for insects. In fact they're often the largest group of species, by biomass, of ...

Salamanders are the only terrestrial vertebrates that possess the remarkable ability to regenerate limbs or tails. The vast ...

More information: Evan H. Campbell Grant et al, Range-wide salamander densities reveal a key component of terrestrial ...

Salamanders are an important component of the food web in many forest ecosystems because they exploit prey too small and inaccessible to be used by most birds and mammals, and subsequently convert ...

Teaching Assistant (Life Science, Principles of Biology I and II, and Form Feeds Function in Vertebrate Evolution); Experience with X ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM); Using High Speed ...

By comparing lamprey and amphioxus development with that of zebrafish, and other vertebrates like frog and salamander, we aim to reconstruct the genetic and developmental changes underlying the ...