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"Among the most disturbing evidence of water pollution are the reports of sexually deformed and chemically castrated fish and amphibians. In several lakes and waterways, including the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, the Columbia River in Washington, and the Potomac, fish have mutated into hermaphrodites (having both male and female sex organs) or changed sex entirely (gone from males to females). In southern California, many bottom-dwelling fish off the coast are now hermaphrodites." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Hard-bodied organisms began to flourish only after the mass marine extinction that ended the Pre-Cambrian Era. amphibians began to colonize the land only after the Devonian extinction, 365 million years ago. And it was the major extinction of 248 million years ago that preceded the appearance of the first dinosaurs. The catastrophe that ended the dinosaurs' reign led in turn to the evolution of mammals. Small, rodent-like mammals did already exist, but had not evolved very fast." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "The animals that first colonized the land were amphibians. But they could never roam far from water. Even toads, which spend most of their life on land, have to return to water in order to reproduce, since tadpoles (their larval stage) must live in water. Reptiles overcame this hurdle by developing tough shells for their eggs, encapsulating a watery environment for the growing embryo. Their eggs could be laid on dry land, miles from any water—another degree of freedom. Another step toward greater freedom was warm blood." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "There is every reason to believe that what applies to dogs applies to other mammals —cats, horses, dolphins, rats —probably to all vertebrates—birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish ?and perhaps to all creatures with a well-developed nervous system. But human beings are, as far as we know (we have not yet broken the communication barrier with dolphins and whales), the only creatures who are conscious that they are conscious. We can observe our thoughts and reflect upon our inner processes. We know that we know. We have a sense of self." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The sharp odor of the splayed amphibians, their steaming organs perfuming the night air, mingles with the decomposing crabby emanations to create a stench nobody should ever have to experience again. A smiling man chopping chilis gives me a moon fruit—a flat, yellow persimmon-like fruit that shoppers smell to block out the market odors. Wandering around with my nose buried in the moon fruit, I try to stay out of the way of porters, their loads toppling over on broken market alleys. As I jot down some observations, a car hits me—not fast enough to break any bones, but enough to shake me up." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"It has become something of a cliche to talk about the 'canary in the coal mine' when discussing climate impacts on the natural world - but one group of animals more than any other exemplifies this point: the amphibians. With their moist skins and early lives in water, frogs, salamanders and toads are particularly vulnerable to changes in their environment. Indeed, an amphibian - the Costa Rican golden toad - is often cited as the first known case of a global warming extinction." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Some amphibians, like the bullfrog, spend the winter in the frigid but unfrozen water at the bottom of lakes and rivers. The mammoth Antarctic cod happily swims beneath the Antarctic ice; its blood contains an antifreeze protein that sticks to ice crystals and prevents them from growing. On the Antarctic surface, the woolly bear caterpillar lives through temperatures as low as minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit for fourteen years, until it turns into a moth and flies off into the sunset for a few short weeks." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Each vertebrate egg, upon fertilization, undergoes cell divisions and movements characteristic of its class: fish follow one pattern, amphibians another, reptiles another, birds another and mammals yet another. Embryologists have known for many decades now that vertebrate embryos develop along different lines which converge in appearance midway through the process, then diverge again until they finally develop — in totally different ways - similar organs, limbs and bones. Darwin thought embryology was a guide to evolutionary genealogy." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Although these effects are being found at a fraction of a part per billion in tiny vulnerable amphibians, we are consuming water with amounts around three parts per billion. So what happens when millions of men and women drink traces of atrazine in their tap water and inhale it into their lungs at holiday time when atrazine is sprayed on Christmas trees?33.34'35'36 Although human research is limited and poorly funded, the herbicide has been incriminated in two of three published reports in a threefold increase in ovarian cancer risk." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "If we start seeing levels of fossil fuel residues declining in polar bears, and healthy populations of wild salmon and amphibians, we will know we are hedging our bets against global warming. But that's going to require some major changes in our consciousness. Part of that change has to involve our being kind to animals, even farm animals. So what are we going to do? How are we going to make a difference? Let's start with the animals that are closest to us, those that we raise on our ranches and farms." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"No one knows all the future ramifications, but this class of chemicals seems to be a contributor to the degeneration of sex organs in amphibians and mammals, including humans. The California Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. EPA have determined that most of the chlorinated hydrocarbons are probable human carcinogens and probably cause mutations, monstrous birth deformities, damage to the immune system, and poisoning of the fetus." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Silurian period Snails, clams and mussels, ammonoids (similar to the nautilus), jawless fish, 4437 sea scorpions, land plants and animals (club mosses, land scorpions); modern groups of algae and fungi Devonian period Spiders, amphibians, jawed fish, lobe-finned fish, sharks, lungfish, and ferns 416.0 Carboniferous period Insects, land snails, amphibians, early reptiles, sea lilies, giant club mosses, and seed ferns 359.2 Permian period Mammal-like reptiles and fin-backed reptiles, cycads, ginkgoes, and conifers 289." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"The term amoeba is sometimes used to refer to something with an indefinite, changeable shape. amphibians (am-FIB-ee-uhnz) Vertebrate animals, such as frogs, that live patt of their life cycle in the water and the other part on land. fa Amphibian is also used to describe things such as vehicles that can operate both on land and in the water, fa amphibians were the first land-dwelling animals to evolve." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"All adult amphibians tested could reconnect severed intestinal ends with blastema formation, muscle, mucous, and villi cells in 30 days. Their meridians conduct current matching the input side of the amphibian two-way system that flows in along sensory, and out along motor nerves; is positive with a variable-shaped surrounding field, having a 15-minute rhythm superimposed on the 24-hour circadian rhythm; the nerves' perineural tissue sheaths (Schwann cells), formerly considered j ust insulation, were the real wires that carry the underlying invisible healing current." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"We must ask why anyone would even consider the use of toxic chemicals that are potentially harmful to humans, wildlife, birds, fish, amphibians and plants when safer, more effective forms of preventing insect-related health problems are available.65'71a'b In time, the full extent of the impact of the medical decisions made in NYC and in other areas of the country will gradually become apparent to many who presently have no idea why they are ill. Some will never know." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"Despite increasing public awareness of the value of tirofiban, and potential new drugs like contortrostatin, many species of reptiles and amphibians face possible extinction. amphibians represent probably the single most endangered group of vertebrates. Some of the most spectacular species of frogs are threatened by greedy and unscrupulous American and European collectors for the pet trade. Turtles and snakes are also overharvested for this commercial en- terprise. At least as grave a threat, and probably a more serious one, is that of habitat disturbance." - Mark J. Plotkin, Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets (Get the book.)

"Nearly 25 percent of the 4,630 known mammal species are now threatened with extinction, along with 34 percent of fish, 25 percent of amphibians, 20 percent of reptiles, and 11 percent of birds. Even more species are having population declines.3 Environmental scientists speak of an "omega point" at which the vast interconnected networks of Earth's ecologies are so weakened that human existence is no longer possible. This is a variant of the die-off theme that I consider unlikely, but it does raise grave questions about the ongoing project of civilization. How long might the Long Emergency last?" - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"The term amoeba is sometimes used to refer to something with an indefinite, changeable shape. amphibians (am-FiB-ee-uhnz) Vertebrate animals, such as frogs, that live part of their life cycle in the water and the other part on land. fa Amphibian is also used to describe things such as vehicles that can operate both on land and in the water, fa amphibians were the first land-dwelling animals to evolve." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "The term amoeba is sometimes used to refer to something with an indefinite, changeable shape. amphibians (am-FiB-ee-uhnz) Vertebrate animals, such as frogs, that live part of their life cycle in the water and the other part on land. fa Amphibian is also used to describe things such as vehicles that can operate both on land and in the water, fa amphibians were the first land-dwelling animals to evolve." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Of the millions of animals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and other things that walk, crawl, fly and swim-humans are among the few creatures on earth that do not make our own vitamin C. Our primitive ancestors were able to consume 300-500 milligrams daily of vitamin C, which definitely prevents scurvy. Throughout the golden ages of world exploration by ship, thousands of people died—sometimes up to half of the crew-due to scurvy. Highly perishable fresh fhihs and vegetables are the richest sources of vitamin C and were unavailable on ship voyages longer than a few weeks." - Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Dragons, amphibians, and dinosaurs appeared in the cyclone, and they too were pulled into eternity. At first, I was surprised that Tibetan dragons and dinosaurs were appearing together in the waves, but then I realized that they represented two metaphors for the same principle. I was drawn further and further along by the deluge of images until I finally arrived at the journey's end. I sat like a toad or a newt in a Permian bog. The water around me was black, and in the murky fog I saw gigantic ferns and horsetails." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Carboniferous period Insects, land snails, amphibians, early reptiles, sea lilies, giant club mosses, and seed ferns 359.2 Permian period Mammal-like reptiles and fin-backed reptiles, cycads, ginkgoes, and conifers 289.0 MEZOZOIC ERA Triassic period Marine reptiles (plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs), crocodiles, frogs, turtles, 251.0 early mammals, and early dinosaurs Jurassic period Dinosaurs (such as stegosaurs), pterosaurs (such as pterodactyl), early birds, dinoflagellates, diatoms, early flowering plants 199." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Meat usually comes from grass-eating mammals but may also come from reptiles and amphibians. Poultry is the meat of birds. Because of their high protein content, many different animals and birds are eaten around the world, but in the United States, the meats most commonly eaten are beef, pork, and lamb, with chicken and turkey weighing in as poultry favorites. As culinary horizons expand, Americans are also trying out less common sources of meat, such as alligator and ostrich, and interest is also turning to game animals, such as venison and quail." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Somehow, I communicated with the strange amphibians and realized that I was able to communicate not only with beings of another kind but also across the barriers of time, across millions of years." AN EXPERIENCE WITH BUFO ALVARIUS SECRETIONS [1495] Empirical formula: C13Hl8N20 Substance type: tryptamine (indole alkaloid) 5-MeO-DMT was first discovered in Dictyoloma incanescens DC. and later was isolated from Anadenanthera peregrina as well. It occurs in a very large number of plants, often in association with N,N-DMT (see the table on pages 853-854)." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"This ancestor may have been an amphibious creature that gave rise to amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Over the next few eons, as these animals branched out and grew branches of their own, along went the virus—to the last twig. As a result, each animal now has its own member of the MuLV family. Both host and virus have evolved, and for a long time now, it has been very hard for any MuLV retrovirus to switch animals. The hosts have become too different. But at one point, a mammal virus must have jumped to a bird and, more recently, the gibbon virus jumped to a koala (or maybe vice versa)." - Jaap Goudsmit M.D., Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (Get the book.)

"The secretions of such tree-dwelling amphibians were likely added to the balche' drink. (Codex Tro-Cortesianus 26b, 26a) Literature See also the entries for Lonchocarpus violaceus, Nymphaea ampla, bufotenine, and 5-MeO-DMT. Blom, Frans. 1928. Gaspar Antonio Chi, interpreter. American Anthropologist 30:250-62. -. 1956. On Slotkin's "fermented drinks in Mexico." American Anthropologist 58:185-86. Bolles, David. 1982. Two Yucatec Maya ritual chants. MexiconA (4): 65-68. Boremanse, Didier. 1981. Una forma de clasificacion simbolica: Los encantamientos al balche' entre los lacandones." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Writing about the reports publication, journalist Antonio Cianciullo adopted this very appropriate metaphor: We are facing ecological bankruptcy and our first possessions are already being pawned: during the last twenty-five years we have seen one in three mangrove forests and one in five coral barriers disappear; two out of every three ecosystems are showing signs of decline; 25 percent of mammals, 12 percent of birds, and 32 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

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