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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

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Sunday, May 02, 2010

INTERESTING EXAMINATION OF NEOTENY IN TAILED AMPHIBIANS



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3 comments:

Retrieverman said...

You had me rolling on the floor!

Axolotls are about to go extinct in the wild. They are only found in the lakes near Mexico City.

The Axolotl is a species of tiger salamander. There are actually populations of neotenic tiger salamanders in the US.

I think the salamander singing this song is actually adult barred tiger salamander: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barred_Tiger_Salamander_Tennoji.jpg

Here's what a real metamorphosed axolotl looks like:

http://www.axolotl.org/tiger_salamander.htm

4:03 PM
Retrieverman said...

Or maybe an Eastern tiger salamander,

http://www.axolotl.org/images/tiger/john_tiger_2.jpg

The ones in captivity are always obese!

4:04 PM
Rich said...

Thank you for this Moment of Zen, inspiring a blog entry of mine which is sorta a re-post

http://operationox.blogspot.com/2010/05/axolotl.html

5:16 PM

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