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A look behind the scenes of the Meta-Morphosis Project.

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Day trip to the Ozarks, Arkansas: Exploring the rich diversity of salamanders in the wild

Dr. Ronald Bonett’s animal facility has already given us a unique glimpse of the species that inhabit these lands, but nothing compares to observing these creatures in their natural habitat: not only is it picturesque, but it also gives us…

Isabelle Toussaint
May 8, 2024

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Chasing dragons in a laboratory cave

Do you like caving ? In early September, Anthony Herrel and I went to Moulis (Ariège, France) to visit the CNRS laboratory cave part of the SETE, hosted by our collaborator Olivier Guillaume, without whom this would not have been…

Isabelle Toussaint
October 2, 2023
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A person with a net in a swamp posing for a photograph

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Catching and filming salamanders at the Amphibian Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

We traveled to the Amphibian Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States to catch and film salamanders! In this gallery we share photos of our fieldwork and how we set up the camera and lights to film feeding behaviours.

A person standing in front of their poster at a science conference

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Presenting at the Biology Meeting in February 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland

We presented our research at the Biology 23 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland - the largest conference of organismic biology in Switzerland!

Anne-Claire Fabre
February 17, 2023

A hand with a pair of tweezers holding food in front of a live salamander under water

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Filming feeding behaviors in live salamanders

To document the diversity of feeding strategies among salamanders we're using high-speed video to capture feeding behaviors from live salamanders. In this photo gallery we share photos of how we care for our live salamanders and prepare them to take center stage for filming.

Digital rendering of multiple salamander skeletons reconstructed from a micro CT scan

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CT scanning natural history collections

To collect data on the diversity of shapes and sizes in salamanders, we use micro CT scanning. In this photo gallery we share photos of a recent visit to the CT scanning facility and explain how we create high-resolution meshes from natural history specimens.

A student using calipers to take measurements from a preserved salamander specimen

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Natural history collections: reference libraries of biodiversity

Natural history collections are vast repositories of biodiversity data. We share photos of a recent visit we made to a natural history museum to collect linear caliper measurements and other data from the specimens.