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…
Lower jaw modularity in the African clawed frog and fire salamander
How do we prepare specimens for scanning?
In order to observe the precise morphology of the head bones, we use a micro-computed tomography (micro-CT scanner). This is a 3D imaging technique using x-rays to see inside an object, slice by slice. For our project, we need to…
Phylogeny of the salamanders included in our Form-Function project
The images come from Vitalii Hulai, Joel Sartore, anitasstudio, lifeonwhite, Javier Alonso Huerta, Matthieu Berroneau, underground reptiles.
Filming salamanders at the Amphibian Foundation
Why salamanders are so special? Were you aware that Salamanders present the most important diversity of developmental strategies among vertebrates? Most salamander species have what we call a biphasic life cycle, meaning that, like the frogs, eggs are laid in…
Adult axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) suction feeding
Larval frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) suction feeding
Adult tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) eating a cricket
A lesser siren (Siren intermedia) feeding
Anderson’s salamander (Ambystoma andersoni) suction feeding
Frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) feeding
Cranial anatomy of a larval Shovelnose salamander (Desmognathus marmoratus)
