Researchers find that Plethodontidae, a dominant family of salamanders, all of which are lungless as adults, actually develop lungs as embryos shedding light on the evolution of lung loss over ...

In the lush Southern Appalachian forests, you're likely to cross paths with one of Tennessee's roughly 50 salamander species, many of which belong to the family Plethodontidae, or lungless ...

They found that lungless salamanders begin developing lungs as embryos in much the same way as species with lungs develop them.

Rare spotted Appalachian salamander is lungless animal species and in danger, at risk of going extinct, lives in rock faces, scientists say ...

While many salamander species have lungs, the Red Hills does not, according to Outdoor Alabama, making it one of the largest lungless salamanders in the world.

Alabama: Red Hills salamander This official state amphibian is a long, lean, mean burrowing machine. Much larger than its other lungless salamander peers at 11 inches, the Red Hills salamander ...

Bolitoglossa salamanders are also known as “‘mushroom-tongued’ or ‘tropical lungless’ salamanders ” and have “a very long and rapidly projected tongue,” according to a 2023 study.

He was among a group of scientists who first discovered the species — a lungless salamander known as the Hickory Nut Gorge green — several years ago. Scientists estimate that only about 500 to ...

A giant salamander — one the biggest ever known to prowl the forests of ancient Appalachia — is offering new insight into the region’s remarkable amphibian diversity. Thanks to a fossil unearthed near ...

Bolitoglossa salamanders are also known as “‘mushroom-tongued’ or ‘tropical lungless’ salamanders ” and have “a very long and rapidly projected tongue,” according to a 2023 study.

Bolitoglossa salamanders are also known as “‘mushroom-tongued’ or ‘tropical lungless’ salamanders ” and have “a very long and rapidly projected tongue,” according to a 2023 study.