However, the red-backed salamander has surmounted all possible obstacles to become D.C.’s official amphibian. Students from Powell Bilingual Elementary School testified last September before the ...
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Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.
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Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids ...
Although scientists haven’t found its skull material, based on other similar ... also been a source of fossils for a new species of amphibian, other dinosaur fossils and notable tracks.
The axolotl (ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) is the Peter Pan of salamanders. While most amphibians grow out of their aquatic phase to begin their lives on land, the axolotl largely retains its larval ...