A cave-dwelling aquatic salamander called an olm has been poking its head above water in Italy - a rare sight for scientists.
"You do have complex vertebrate species that appear not to age, like the Galapagos tortoise or a cave-dwelling salamander called the olm. I do say 'appear not to age'; we haven't studied any of ...
They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...
Unfortunately some kinds of salamanders, including the Shenandoah salamander, are declining rapidly and are now protected by the Endangered Species Act. The Shenandoah salamander is a small, ...
The two-inch-long, “neotenic” Jollyville Plateau salamander retains gills for its entire life and spends all its time underwater, inhabiting springs, spring runs and wet caves fed by the Edwards ...
Fire-breathing or not, the olm salamander is a species unlike any other. Here's what sets them apart.
We also have a front end of her upper body. We know she was at minimum 2.5 meters long, probably 3.5, 4.5 meters—big head and a long, salamander-like body,” says Pardo. He told Ars that ...
A well-studied example of a ring species is the salamander Ensatina escholtzii of the Pacific Coast region of the United States. In Southern California, naturalists have found what look like two ...
The Texas cave salamander can only be found in a small stretch of waters in Texas, but it has a curiously similar cousin that exists only in European waters. The olm is a similarly albino ...
The ancient freshwater creature resembled a salamander and had a mouth dominated by “huge fangs,” according to a member of the team that discovered it. Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed.
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Most guests love their stays at this Salamander outpost (formerly the Mandarin Oriental) thanks to its array of amenities, including the Salamander Spa and indoor swimming pool. The ...