Posts | Mikko Kolkkala (@XCsci@ecoevo.social)

Blood-powered toes give

an arboreal edge https://phys.org/news/2025-01-blood-powered-toes-salamanders-arboreal.html

Vascular and Osteological Morphology of Expanded Digit Tips Suggests Specialization in the Wandering Salamander https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.70026

"Wandering salamanders are known for gliding through the canopies of redwood forests, but how the small

stick their landing and take-off with ease? They can rapidly fill, trap, and drain the blood in their toe tips to optimize attachment, detachment and locomotion"

Phys.org

Blood-powered toes give salamanders an arboreal edge

Wandering salamanders are known for gliding high through the canopies of coastal redwood forests, but how the small amphibians stick their landing and take-off with ease remains something of a mystery.

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