This discovery by a team of researchers led by James Napoli, from the Department of Anatomical Sciences in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, counters previous research that concluded theropods did not have a bird-like carpal bone, or pisiform. Their finding, published in Nature, opens the possibility that the evolution of flight in dinosaurs was “all in the wrist.” Leer más. 

A new study published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire, researchers investigated the maximum temperatures that lizards could experience during prescribed (controlled) fires in the Mount Lofty Ranges and compared them to their maximum survivable temperatures. Leer más.

Recent explorations in the humid montane forests of the upper Pastaza Valley have uncovered previously unknown species. Here, we describe a new Andean toad species from the central Ecuadorian Andes, identified through genetic analyses and distinctive morphological and cranial traits. Leer más.

The tiny blind snake required microscopic examination to distinguish it from an invasive look-alike species before being confirmed and returned to the wild. Leer más. Enlace a The Guardian.

Descubren fósiles de un reptil que vivió hace 247 millones de años con una cresta formada por apéndices similares a plumas, lo que indica que antes de las aves ya existían reptiles con recubrimientos complejos en la piel. Leer más.