MORE than 600 Indian Star Tortoises were sent home to India last week after the smuggled reptiles were rescued by the authorities a few months ago. Leer más.

Germany commemorated the 150th anniversary of Archaoepteryx with a 10-Euro silver coin, shown here on the WitmerLab cast of the Berlin specimen. Leer más.

Sea World es un parque marino de entretenimientos estadounidense que realiza también un importante trabajo de conservación y protección de especies amenazadas. Leer más.

Everyone knows the devastating effect that the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has had on amphibian populations almost everywhere in the world–in 2009, it was estimated to infect at least 350 amphibian species on 6 continents. Leer más.

I previously characterized Albert Schwartz as one of the five kings of Greater Antillean anole taxonomy for having described eight new species from the region.  Although Schwartz described the fewest species among the five kings, focusing on new species masks Schwartz’s even more important contributions to cataloguing geographic variation within species.  Leer más.