At first, an encounter between a jaguar (Panthera onca) and a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) seems improbable, even ridiculous, but the two species do come into fatal contact when a female turtle, every two to four years, crawls up a jungle beach to lay her eggs. A hungry jaguar will attack the nesting turtle, killing it with a bite to the neck, and dragging the massive animal—sometime all the way into the jungle—to eat the muscles around the neck and flippers. Leer más.
Compleja y muy espectacular ha sido la operación de rescate efectuada la mañana de este lunes de una roca de arenisca de dos toneladas y medio de peso, donde está incrustado, desde hace unos 152 millones de años, el esqueleto más completo de dinosaurio encontrado hasta ahora en Asturias. Leer más.
The Center for North American Herpetology (CNAH) has received a $25,000.00 grant from the Wallace Research Foundation to assist in re-building the book titles in the library of the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo, Brazil. On 15 May 2010, a fire at the institute destroyed its research library and collections. While CNAH cannot replace the invaluable intellectual work and irreplaceable specimens that were lost, we can help to replace the Butantan library so they can begin anew. Leer más.
Del viernes 15 (19h) hasta el domingo 17 de febrero de 2013 (18h). Leer más.
