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caecilian
caecilian Underground burrowing amphibian found in Central and South America,
s Asia and Africa. Its worm-like body varies from
c.18–135cm (7–53in) in length and its colour from black to pink. There are sensory tentacles between the eyes, which are tiny and often useless.
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Rare fossils of enigmatic amphibian. (caecilians)
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/27/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...record of ancient caecilians has long consisted...cache of ancient caecilian bones that offers...the other known caecilian remains, report...bones. Modern caecilians show no trace of...Some argue that caecilians evolved from a...the problem over caecilian origins, at least...
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Offspring feed on yummy mummy skin.(caecilians)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/8/2006; 700+ words
; ...offspring eat her skin. The animal is a type of amphibian called a caecilian. Caecilians look like worms or snakes because they don't have limbs. The species of caecilian that the scientists observed is called Boulengerula taitanus and lives...
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Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Gymnophiona (Caecilians).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 9/1/2006; 457 words
; ...1578083125 Reproductive biology and phylogeny of Gymnophiona (Caecilians) Ed. by Jean-Marie Exbrayar. Science Publishers, Inc...Hardcover Reproductive biology and phylogeny; v.5 QL391 The Caecilians are the little known, snake-like third order of amphibians...
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Squeeze Play
Magazine article from: Natural History; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...first saw a live caecilian, I was convinced...common earthworms, caecilians' brown-gray...discovered that caecilians such as D. mexicanus...kinds of soil a caecilian can move, the...implied either that caecilians possess a different...turns out that caecilian muscle is much...
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Special-Occasion Dress
Magazine article from: Natural History; 6/1/2009; ; 446 words
; ...the recent observation that caecilians are not entirely subterranean...more than thirty species of caecilians between colorful or patterned...on certain terrains where caecilians prosper. They could also...other amphibians. Whether caecilian skin actually harbors any...
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Just turn your back, Mom.(ZOOLOGY)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 5/6/2006; 700+ words
; ...species of legless amphibians called caecilians nourishes her youngsters by letting...says an international research team. Caecilians, which look like worms or snakes...these young resemble teeth of fetal caecilians in live-birth species. Scientists...
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SCIENCE NEWS BRIEFING.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 4/3/1997; 583 words
; ...south of San Francisco. AMPHIBIANS Caecilians not really worms They look like gargantuan...worms. Biologists had long assumed that caecilians, legless relatives of frogs and salamanders...whose bodies are relatively rigid, caecilians are ``just a big sack of fluid...
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Sci-triv game.
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...in our solar system? 40 POINTS Axolotls, caecilians, A-- is a and newts are all deep valley...development of an adult body is called neoteny. A caecilian is an amphibian without legs. Caecilians are often mistaken for snakes. 5. The world...
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La fauna anfibia en la region de Villavicencio en el este de Colombia.(Zoología)
Magazine article from: Caldasia; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...amphibian fauna consisting of three caecilians, 45 frogs, and one salamander. This...the country as a whole. Key words. Caecilians, Frogs, Piedmont, Salamanders, Zoogeography...amp; Lynch, 1998), all of the caecilians (Lynch, 2000), and all of the gladiator...
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SCIENTIST BRAVES COLOMBIA'S CIVIL WAR TO GATHER SAMPLES
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 8/15/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...with one regret: he did not find a caecilian a giant wormlike creature he's been...questioning the rebels about the presence of caecilians, nocturnal creatures that are as thick...s blue eyes flash as he discusses caecilians. Last year, he trekked into the countryside...
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caecilian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
caecilian , any of the legless, tailless...Caecilidae. Most adult caecilians resemble earthworms superficially...sensory tentacle. The eyes of caecilians are nearly functionless, and some species are eyeless. Caecilians are found in swampy places...
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Caecilian
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Caecilian (d. before 343), Bp. of Carthage from 311 or perhaps 307. His importance...The rigorist party at Carthage consecrated a rival bishop, urging that Caecilian's consecration was invalid on the ground that he had been consecrated...
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caecilians
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
caecilians See APODA .
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Donatus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...group of Catholics met and elected Caecilian as their new bishop. Because of his severe antirigorist views, Caecilian had many enemies, not least of whom...Spanish lady residing in Carthage. Caecilian, when a deacon, had alienated her...
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amphibians
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...Although modern amphibians, frogs and toads, salamanders, and caecilians (legless amphibians) are familiar organisms today, their...On the other hand, it has been argued that salamanders and caecilians were derived from the microsaurs, a lepospondyl group. If...
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