A turtle trafficker identified as David Feltenberger of Okeechobee, Florida, has been sentenced to 90 days in prison followed by 90 days of house arrest, three years of supervised release, 250 hours of community service, and a $20,000 fine for exporting wild-caught turtles to China. Leer más.
Using video cameras to watch the frogs in the wild, Iwai found no sign of them using their pseudothumbs to hunt prey, or to fend off predators. Females didn’t appear to use them at all. Leer más.
A Japanese frog found on Japan’s Amami and Ryukyuk islands has knife-like spikes protruding from pseudo thumbs that a scientist says is used for fighting with other males as well as when mating with females. The rare frog, Babina subaspera or Otton frog is equipped with the sharp appendage on both front forelimbs. Leer más.
A Florida man who allegedly operated “a one-man black market in prehistoric fossils” was arrested and indicted Wednesday, for illegally importing dinosaur skeletons from China and Mongolia. Leer más.
An international team of researchers has found that female Komodo Dragons live half as long as males on average, seemingly due to their physically demanding ‘housework’ such as building huge nests and guarding eggs for up to six months. Leer más.
