A recent study explores the role of salamanders in carbon sequestering in forests. Researchers found salamanders in a forest help increase the amount of carbon that makes it into the soil instead of into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. Salamanders are the most abundant vertebrates in North American forests and they prey on a lot of invertebrates. Leer más.

The oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur clade Caenagnathidae has long been enigmatic due to the incomplete nature of nearly all described fossils. Here we describe Anzu wyliei gen. et sp. nov., a new taxon of large-bodied caenagnathid based primarily on three well-preserved partial skeletons. Leer más.

The Southeast shrimp trawl fishery is one of the nine dirtiest in the United States, a watchdog group says. Leer más.