The discovery shakes up what scientists thought they knew about salamander evolution.
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People sometimes release pets into the wild, resulting in biological invasions.
Chytrid fungus has caused a global “amphibian apocalypse,” killing frogs worldwide. Now some appear to be evolving resistance – but a closely related fungus threatens newts and salamanders.
Nature has created some of the strongest glues with properties we could use – if we understood how they worked.
A new project hopes to drill through the Earth’s crust for the first time. But what beasties lurk deep beneath our feet?
Newts are unique within the salamander family for the way they regrow limbs. And along with fossils are giving clues to a unique ability to regenerate.
Metoposaurus algarvensis, aka toilet jaws, was all over our early ancestors. The thing that got us off the hook? A big hot interception 200m years ago.
Damage to vital organs, the spinal cord, or limbs can have an enormous impact on our ability to move, function – and even live. But imagine if you could restore these tissues back to their original condition…
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Research Fellow, Monash University
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Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, The University of Edinburgh
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Research Support Officer (Communications and Events), University of Leeds
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Principal lecturer, bioscience, Nottingham Trent University
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SAgE Research Fellow, Newcastle University
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Postdoctoral research associate, Natural History Museum
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Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University
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Post-doctoral fellow Centre for Invasion Biology (C·I·B) Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Vertebrate Morphology and Palaeontology, UCL
