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Monday, October 26, 2015

Capacity to regenerate body parts may be the primitive state for all four-legged vertebrates

A team of paleontologists shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four-legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolution.

from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1OSxUSK
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