WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and the Royal Government of Cambodia’s Fisheries Administration announced today that 21 captive-raised southern river terrapins have been released back into their native habitat in southwest Cambodia. More than 150 villagers, government representatives, and religious leaders attended ceremonies for the release. Leer más.
A new elaborately feathered dinosaur is the largest ever discovered to have a well-preserved set of bird-like wings, according to a new study. Leer más.
One of the issues with being an island nation is the lack of species due to the number of barriers species face. This isn’t helped by the fact that the majority of the UK was covered by ice for most of the Pleistocene. These barriers were particularly hard for animals such as amphibians and reptiles to cross due to their ectothermic lifestyle and lack of flight. Compared to mainland Europe, we have a reduced diversity of amphibian and reptile species. Growing up in this landscape, I was taught that there were only 12 native terrestrial species of herptiles, 6 amphibians and 6 reptiles. Leer más.
Daniel Escoriza and Jihène Ben Hassine. Journal of Herpetology, Volume 49, Issue 2 (June 2015). The niches were examined at two spatial levels; regionally, using climatic and vegetation cover data, and locally by studying the selection of aquatic habitats. Our results indicate that Salamandra algira (North African fire salamander) and North African Pleurodeles species are segregated along a thermal and vegetation cover axis, although with considerable overlap. Leer más.
