If you're a naturalist looking to leave your name in the history book as the discoverer of new animal species, maybe the Tacarcuna area of the Darien, a mountainous region near the Panama border, is the right place for you to start exploring. Scientists from Conservation International (CI) and Ecotropico Foundat... |
5 February 2009
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The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), a salamander that also goes by the names of the "water monster" or the "Mexican walking fish," was an important element in Aztec legends and diet. As legend has it, the Aztec god of lightning, death and monstrosities, Xolotl, changed into an axolotl and ran into hiding in the Xochim... |
4 November 2008
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This weird behavior was observed by biologists from Harvard University in a species of frogs known as Trichobatrachus robustus and is manifested by a break in the bones in the toe pads, forming a new claw-like bone which then penetrates through living tissue, probably as a defense mechanism. David Blackburn from the ... |
28 May 2008
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The fossil of an animal that lived on Earth some 290 million years ago, having features resembling those of frogs and salamanders alike, has been found during the 1990s in Texas by a paleontologist and colleagues from the Smithsonian Institution. The fossil remained in the collection of the National Museum of Natural... |
22 May 2008
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This top comprises animals you may have never heard about. EDGE (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) comprises animal species evolutionarily isolated. Most of them are extremely endangered (in fact, even their vulnerability makes the group or the sole species isolated from other lineages) and require rap... |
26 January 2008
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Could you lose one hand and grow back another? Cut off your ears and regrow another pair? Humans cannot do this, deer neither, but they shed their antlers annually and regenerate others, even bigger and this could come with some explanations for us. And deer are closer to us than the limb regenerating salamanders."Th... |
30 November 2007
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Up until now, humans were able to regenerate limbs only in science fiction and children movies. But for a salamander, this is as simple as for a lizard to regenerate its tail, a trait that has fascinated humans for a long time, but which has remained unexplained. Now, a new research shows that one molecule could be t... |
2 November 2007
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We all know chameleons, especially for some of their performances, like the ability of changing color or for their special hunting technique. While the ability of changing color is not so singular in the animal world (many fishes, cephalopods like octopuses and squids, or even other lizards have it), their technique ... |
7 March 2007
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