Marta Lopez-Darias, Bieke Vanhooydonck, Raphael Cornette and Anthony Herrel. Functional Ecology. Accepted manuscript online: 13 OCT 2014. .Our data thus suggest that head morphology and associated functional traits may evolve under different selective pressures in the two sexes. Leer más.

RADIO tracking shows one of the Kimberley’s iconic frogs could be picking up a deadly lungworm from cane toads (Rhinella marina). Leer más.

This little green frog goes by many names: Günther’s bush frog, the white-spotted bush frog, chalazodes bubble-nest frog, Raorchestes chalazodes. But, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, acts-out-your-Sims-fantasies-inside-bamboo frog would be a pretty fair moniker, too. Leer más.

Last week, Yoel Stuart and colleagues (including me) published a paper demonstrating that green anoles had rapidly (ca. 20 years) evolved an increase in toepad size as a result of upward shifts in habitat use caused the presence of brown anoles. Leer más.