Finger-sized and sand-coloured, the dunes sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus) blends into the scenery in the small pockets of the American southwest that it calls home. But with controversy swirling around a US government decision last week to not list it as ‘endangered’, the diminutive reptile has become a high-profile symbol of a larger question: can voluntary measures save a threatened species? Leer más.

ederal agents took possession of a dinosaur skeleton that is the subject of an ownership dispute on Friday afternoon, loading crates of fossilized bones into the back of a white truck from a storage building here in Sunnyside, Queens.  Leer más.

Jerónimo Domínguez Lazos, director general de Zoológico Miguel Álvarez del Toro (Zoomat), reveló que los anfibios son animales con mucha susceptibilidad a los cambios del clima y la creciente contaminación causada por los humanos, por ello han reportado problemas poblacionales y de salud, tales como el ataque del hongo quitridio que provoca una enfermedad altamente infecciosa, y que se extiende rápidamente por todo el mundo. Leer más.

The discovery of rare neotenic Tiger Salamanders, toads struggle to breed through drought, snakes hunt young amphibians to survive, and visually stunning time lapse changes of a wetland from Winter thaw, summer and Winter freeze. Leer más.

THE mysterious death of 22 green turtles, a protected species, is puzzling experts in North Queensland. Leer más.