thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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thebrainscoop: “ npr: “ skunkbear: “ The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design...
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The researchers used high-speed photography and an instrument called a Rheometer to analyze frog saliva under prey-capturing conditions.­­­­­­­ The scientists think frog tongues could one day help engineers design reversible soft adhesives that could work at high speeds.

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Frogs are *amazing* -Emily

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typhlonectes: “ Greater Sirens (Siren lacertina) are long eel-like aquatic salamanders, with large external gills. They are found in bodies of freshwater with muddy substrata in the SE United States, from Ea. VA south through the state of Florida....
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typhlonectes: “ Greater Sirens (Siren lacertina) are long eel-like aquatic salamanders, with large external gills. They are found in bodies of freshwater with muddy substrata in the SE United States, from Ea. VA south through the state of Florida....
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typhlonectes:

Greater Sirens (Siren lacertina) are long eel-like aquatic salamanders, with large external gills.

They are found in bodies of freshwater with muddy substrata in the SE United States, from Ea. VA south through the state of Florida. Sirens are carnivorous, eating a wide variety of small aquatic vertebrates and larger aquatic invertebrates. They have only a pair of small front legs (no back legs), and may grow to a length of up to ~38 in (96.5 cm).

Though they do not possess teeth, they may deliver a painful and bloody bite with the sharp bone ridges in their mouths. They are also capable of vocalizing, emitting clicks and faint barks. Sirens are capable of becoming dormant underground for long periods, in cocoons made of mucous secreted from the skin, during times of drought (up to 1 year in good conditions).

photographed in Northern FL by Dick Bartlett

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explosionsoflife: “ The great crested newt, also known as the warty newt (Triturus cristatus), looks like a tiny aquatic dinosaur due to the crest on its back that males develop during the breeding season. This species lives mostly on land, but...
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The great crested newt, also known as the warty newt (Triturus cristatus), looks like a tiny aquatic dinosaur due to the crest on its back that males develop during the breeding season. This species lives mostly on land, but spends between three and five months of the year in lakes, ponds, and ditches. They are widespread throughout Europe, but in a number of places their habitats have been drained, leading to a decline in numbers.

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libutron: “ Oedipina petiola | ©Jason Butler Narrow-footed Worm salamander, Honduras. Oedipina petiole is a species of worm salamander (Caudata, Plethodontidae), newly described in 2011 from the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios,...
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libutron: “ Oedipina petiola | ©Jason Butler Narrow-footed Worm salamander, Honduras. Oedipina petiole is a species of worm salamander (Caudata, Plethodontidae), newly described in 2011 from the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios,...
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Oedipina petiola | ©Jason Butler 

Narrow-footed Worm salamander, Honduras.

Oedipina petiole is a species of worm salamander (Caudata, Plethodontidae), newly described in 2011 from the central portion of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras.

Plethodontid worm salamanders of the genus Oedipina are among the most challenging neotropical salamanders to study, due to their secretive fossorial habits and the resulting infrequency with which they are encountered.