Curso Prático de Construção, Gestão e Monitorização de Charcos para a Vida Selvagem. 12-13 Março.

Os charcos são ecossistemas aquáticos de pequena ou média dimensão que suportam uma elevada biodiversidade ao nível de diversos grupos de seres vivos e encontram-se em acentuado declínio em toda a Europa devido a pressões humanas diversas. Sendo assim, este workshop surge no âmbito do projecto ‘Charcos com Vida’ do CIBIO-Div e visa a fomentação para a construção de charcos, proporcionando os conhecimentos básicos sobre o ciclo de vida de um charco, a fauna e flora associada, construção e impermeabilização de um charco. Leer más.

Salamander eggs could provide breast cancer breakthrough

SCIENTISTs believe salamander eggs could provide a wonder drug to fight breast cancer. Leer más.

New Type of Salamander Discovered in Syria

The new type was named »Syrian Crested Newts». It has a big crest on the back, with small dark spots and a broad white line on each side, unlike the familiar European type.

The new Salamander’s abdomen is orange in colour. It is 15-cm-long.

What Gives Frogs a Face? Zoologists Clarify Role of FOXN3 Gene in Development of Clawed Frog

In terms of numbers, frogs are superior to all the other amphibians, and even mammals,» says Professor Dr. Lennart Olsson from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany). Professor Olsson’s research group for Systematic Zoology examines these animals’s special secret of success. «We are interested in how the frogs developed in such a great variety and which evolutionary new development is responsible for making frogs so particularly successful,» Jennifer Schmidt from Olsson’s team explains.

New dinosaur adds to the mystery of Triassic Park

Triassic Park was a more diverse place than we thought, according to the latest finds from the 230-million-year-old Ischigualasto formation in north-eastern Argentina. Dinosaurs make up one-third of all vertebrate genera found in the fossil beds, and all three major dinosaur groups had already appeared – not bad for a time when the beasts were thought to be rare.