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About the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
This Amphibian Week, take a closer look at what makes these species so wonderfully weird and worthy of our attention.
The secret to salamanders’ survival may be in their slimy secretions. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are swabbing salamanders in Shenandoah, looking for disease-fighting microbes that live in the mucus on their skin.
