The scientific community in Philadelphia and concerned neighbors are calling on Drexel University to keep the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’s public-facing museum open beyond their impos...

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Top predators strongly influence food webs, often because they reach large body sizes. Amphibians are typically regarded as prey in such systems, but giant salamanders are a rare exception. Because gi...

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Fossil biotic interactions (fBIs) provide a critical but underutilized window into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of life through time. Unlike modern ecological data, the fossil record captu...

Cassatt-Johnstone et al. use paleogenomics to show that extinct American cheetahs were most closely related to pumas, not cheetahs. These cats ranged far into the Arctic and exploited aquatic prey, th...

The closure does not affect the rest of the institution, which builds and maintains the collections and conducts research through departments such as the Patrick Center for Environmental Research.

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The ontogenetic development, innervation, and morphology of the shoulder joint and forelimb muscles were investigated in 11 anuran species. The results reveal largely conserved splitting patterns of ...

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Developmental Biology Advances - Lungfishes are commonly considered to be the sister group to tetrapods. They appeared around 415 million years ago, then rapidly evolved, diversified and spread....

Scientific Reports - Investigating a Devonian vertebrate assemblage with synchrotron microtomography of coprolites

An articulated temnospondyl skeleton from Middle Triassic deposits of Bjørnøya (Bear Island) in the western Barents Sea is described as a new plagiosaurid genus and species, Arctobatrachus urdensis. ...

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Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...

Salamanders have been covered at Tet Zoo on numerous occasions, there being articles on newts and other salamandrids, plethodontids (lungless salamanders) of numerous sorts, and also ambystomatids (th...

Scientific Reports - New fossil evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Europe (southern France) deepens the origin of Salamandridae (Urodela) and refines the biogeography of the family

Abstract. Tube feet are extensions of the echinoderm water vascular system that play essential roles in feeding and ecology in living crinoids. However, on

Abstract. The osteohistology and growth record of eight bones from a single individual of the Permian temnospondyl Sclerocephalus nobilis were analysed. Th