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  • The top of the insect's abdomen engorges the newt's throat.

    Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire 2011

  • On the webpage, a tab labeled "range map" led me to a Google map of California with the newt's range overlaid and shaded in red.

    David Kroodsma: Your iPhone: A Crowd-Sourced Field Guide to Save the Planet David Kroodsma 2011

  • One thing we all know from newt's past – he knows how to get his hands on money, even if it violates law and ethics rules in the gettin '

    Gingrich to help Iowa GOP raise money 2010

  • Now, by taking a leaf from nature's book of oddities, scientists have shown that mammals can also be coaxed into using the newt's unusual technique to make fresh tissue.

    Scientists Find New Way to Regenerate Tissue 2010

  • A leech would have to be feeding right on top of a newt's infected muscle in order to transmit the infection.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Because of its repulsive odour, the fat in a newt's body is of limited use, but its very low freezing temperature makes it of possible value as a lubricant for machinery.

    The War with the Newts 2006

  • Anyway, charitable purpose was not a factor in the Ethical Society decision: Now it appeared that any group, charitable or not, that appears to worship just about anything -- a newt's tail, Mein Kampf, godlessness -- presumably gets a tax exemption, or, at the very least, can tie up the courts demanding one.

    God Doesn't Follow the Law 2006

  • After we had prepared the skeletons of the animals killed we made a very interesting observation: the skeleton of these newts is almost identical with the fossil remains of a newt's skeleton found by Dr. Johannes Jakob Scheuchzer in the

    The War with the Newts 2006

  • My lady wife and I expressed our unfeigned joy and wonderment at this news and the newt's near perfect pronunciation.

    The War with the Newts 2006

  • While the genes were active during maximum dedifferentiation activity, she said, so much is going on in cells after a newt's forelimb is cut off that it's difficult to pick out specific dedifferentiation genes.

    Cells That Go Back in Time Kristen Philipkoski 2005

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