Caecilians are well adapted to a life underground, but a serious threat lives under there with them. All over the world, they have evolved the same means to fight this subterranean threat.
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Main Paper References:
Mancuso M, Zaman S, Maddock ST, Kamei RG, Salazar-Valenzuela D, Wilkinson M, Roelants K, Fry BG. 2023. Resistance Is Not Futile: Widespread Convergent Evolution of Resistance to Alpha-Neurotoxic Snake Venoms in Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24:11353. DOI: 10.3390/ijms241411353.
Other Links/Mentions:
https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/8336/9359
https://asianturtleprogram.org/healthy-big-headed-turtles-found-in-the-wild-four-years-after-release-into-the-wild-highlights-the-importance-of-conservation-activities/?fbclid=IwAR1lTt0zpuf8n5VardZeXQHaVWJ4iCtxI9fe6Elm78ZxOFiZHNuW2lp07Ps
Editing and Music:
Podcast edited by Emmy – https://www.fiverr.com/emmyk10
Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson
Species Bi-week theme – Michael Timothy
Other Music – The Passion HiFi, https://www.thepassionhifi.com
148 Snakes with Dangerous Diets
147 Crocodiles can feel with their face
146 Iguanas with a Sweet Tooth
145 Vipers On Ice
144 New Zealand’s Native Frogs
143 Can frogs stand the heat?
142 Alligators can regrow their tails
141 Mountain Dragons
140 Snake Diets Through the Ages
139 Can brownsnakes be bothered?
138 Evolving Anoles
137 Switzerland’s Frog-enaissance
136 Set a course for Tiny Boa Island
135 I should have stayed an egg
134 For Rattlesnakes, Wetter is Better
133 Tale of the Caledonian Castaways
132 Radioactive Colour Changing Frogs
131 Invasion of the Lung Crustaceans
130 Versatile Blue Tongue
129 Fast Food is Bad for Turtles Too
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