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290-million-year-old creature could sprout new limbs

29 October 2015

If an ancient amphibian lost a limb or a tail, it could grow another and a new study led by Dr Anoop Kumar and Professor Jeremy Brockes (both UCL Structural & Molecular Biology), has identified the two genes necessary for salamanders to re-grow backward digits. Read: Yahoo News