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Stories about: salamanders

Salamander Find to Help Human Tissue Regeneration Studies A new research has shown that the cells that remain in the limb stumps of salamanders do not, in fact, revert to their most basic state, the embryonic one. Rather, they “downgrade” to a certain point, but that point is far above the embryonic state. Thus, they can recover a lot faster, and contribute to g... 2 July 2009 04:02 GMT Experts Say Predators Ignore Odd-Looking Prey Naturalists have been finally able to understand one of the most puzzling aspects of species' evolution, namely why rare traits seem to persist in the general population over a long time. According to recent investigations, this happens because the natural predators of those species have the tendency to avoid ca... 13 May 2009 09:52 GMT Frogs and Salamanders Threatened by Global Warming The number of amphibious creatures in the ponds in Yellowstone Park is severely declining, Stanford scientists say. They place this phenomenon on global warming, which keeps drying up the fishless ponds that were the perfect habitat for frogs and salamanders to lay their eggs. New surveys showed that the number of la... 29 October 2008 06:35 GMT