SALAMANDERS27_ph2.JPG This lungless salamander, Karsenia koreana, the only known species of its kind, was discovered two years ago in Korea and lives in forested rock crevices.

Lungless salamanders develop lungs as embryos despite lung loss in adults for millions of years Date: August 17, 2022 Source: Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology ...

“Clearly lungless salamanders do fine without lungs given that they make up about two-thirds of all salamander species,” said lead author Zachary R. Lewis, former doctoral candidate (PhD ’16 ...

Lungless salamanders are in the Plethodontidae family. The southern two-lined salamander, Eurycea cirrigera, is the two-lined salamander that typically lives south of Interstate 70 in Ohio.

The lungless salamander, which breathes through moist skin and lays its eggs on land, is typically found in North and South America and has some distant relatives in Italy and Sardinia.

Males also have 15 vertebrae, one less than females. Yet while most species of lungless salamander have male and females of differing sizes, those of Urspelerpes brucei are close to being equal in ...

In his delightful book "The Appalachians" (1965), Maurice Brooks devotes an entire chapter to the lungless salamanders, in which he notes that mountain heaths (rhododendrons, azaleas, laurels ...

In contrast, Alabama's Red Hills salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti), a rare lungless species with a worm-like body and tiny limbs, and which lives underground, is thought to be a more distantly ...

New genetic evidence suggests ancient amphibians heeded this advice, migrating from the West Coast of North America to Asia via a land bridge connecting Alaska and Siberia about 80 million years ...

David Wake, an evolutionary biologist and a pre-eminent authority on salamanders who raised an alarm in the 1980s about the loss of amphibians to climate change, died on April 29 at his home in ...