A hungry predator—perhaps a spider or bird or snake—ripped off its left front leg, leaving the stub of a bone jutting from its side. The salamander managed to escape but then must have fallen ...

From that blastema, a salamander can grow a new leg or tail, which will eventually grow to full size. Why it happens is still a puzzle, although experts have their theories. In David Attenborough ...

He reaches his hand into the shallow end of the mud up picking up a slimy, long semi-black salamander that wiggled its legs slowly in the early afternoon light. His grandfather, John Young ...