Robin Coste Lewis

I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere.

American Poet

Ted Turner

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

American Businessman

Remember 'salamander' often indicates a water or damp habitat, different from typical lizards.

Habitat Clues

Salamanders vary in color and size, so the word doesn't imply a specific appearance.

Species Variation

Some salamanders are endangered, so the word may carry conservation implications.

Protected Wildlife

The mythical salamander evokes images of magic, alchemy, and fantasy in literature.

Fantasy Imagery

It reflects old beliefs about animals and elements, interesting for mythological discussions.

Historical Beliefs

In various cultures, the mythical salamander stands for purity, faith, or passion.

Symbolic Meanings

 salamanders and insects we really do need somebody to give them a voice too one day joel called up his friend the president of the lincoln's children zoo and he asked if he could take some portraits of some animals it was located close enough to home so joel could go there and be back in a few hours and the zoo said sure

Saving the Creepy...

 Now, regrowing body parts out of nowhere might seem like magic, but there are several organisms that can achieve this feat. Some lizards can regrow their tails, the humble salamander can completely regenerate their arm, and even us mere humans can regrow our liver after losing more than half of its original mass.

How we could teach our...

 from biomechanics and robotics to neuroscience, saying don't underestimate to what extent the body already helps locomotion. Now, how does this relate to human locomotion? Clearly, human locomotion is more complex than cat and salamander locomotion,

A robot that runs and...

 Axolotls reach sexual maturity with gills and a tadpole-like dorsal fin. Scientists think their forever-young condition, called “neoteny,” evolved because of their stable habitat. For salamanders that develop in waters that dry up,

Axolotls: The...

 in this rare night footage a giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the salamanders habitat is destroyed so

Giant Japanese...

 it captures its prey and with another quick opening and gulp it then swallows its victims even though they can grow to over a foot long and are the largest land dwelling salamanders in the world

Animal Attack! "Deadly"...

 electrons in this rare night footage giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the

Giant Salamander As Big...

 Fantastic animals that are real, extremely alive and endangered. Boa snakes and kinkajous, opossums and tarantulas, salamanders and moths. Animals that one might see once in a lifetime,

The Colorful,...

 salamanders hunt for invertebrate prey throughout the night with its striking yellow and red markings this is a rare subspecies found only here