salamander

While some regenerating animals like salamanders and fish focus on restoring lost parts in proportion to what remains, this sea anemone takes a different approach.

Here, slender salamanders slink through the leaf litter under robust stands of Santa Cruz Island buckwheat and California fuchsia.

Rachel Nuwer and Chang W. Lee each joined a nighttime salamander hunt in Kyoto, Japan, and visited a herpetology lab at Kyoto University while reporting this article.

In the animal kingdom, some of the largest genomes include certain lungfishes and salamander at about 120 billion base pairs.

Frogs, salamanders and lungfish had far bigger genomes than humans did.