Movie 1

High-speed light recording and high-speed x-ray recording at 250fps (frames per second) showing intraoral processing in the newt T. carnifex played at 30fps. The large radiopaque marker in the high-speed x-ray recording indicates the position of the prey (maggot).

Chewing or not? Intraoral food processing in a salamandrid newt

Egon Heiss, Daniel Schwarz, and Nicolai Konow

Journal of Experimental Biology 2019. 222:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.189886