The Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Snake Conservation announced today that they are offering a $500 reward for the first person to document the existence of the South Florida rainbow snake. Both conservation organizations believe that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last month prematurely declared the species extinct without conducting targeted surveys and despite several unconfirmed sightings. Leer más.

The evidence is strong. Paleontologists found a fossil of the small, bird-like dinosaur with remains of a bird in its gut. It appears that the dinosaur grabbed the bird and swallowed it whole. The bird must have been the dinosaur’s last meal, given how fossils for the two animals were preserved together over millions of years. Leer más.

Um vírus está ameaçando dizimar a população de tartarugas verdes da Grande Barreira de Corais, no norte do país. A doença causada pelo fibropapilloma produz tumores nos animais. Além do aumento na presença do vírus, as tartarugas também sofrem com a falta de alimento e a deterioração do ambiente de seu habitat. Leer más.

En este caso, el animal había aparecido en un sótano de un edificio que se encontraba en obras y, tras realizar la revisión completa del animal, verificamos que no presentaba ninguna lesión por lo que decidimos liberarlo. Leer más.

Multiple factors threaten global amphibian diversity but the spatial distribution of these threats and their interactions are poorly known. Leer más.