Agentes de la Policía Nacional y de la Guardia Civil han recuperado un total de 127 reptiles de hasta 54 especies diferentes, entre víboras, cobras o crótalos, todos ellos destinados a su venta ilegal en un domicilio de la localidad de Getafe, según ha informado este martes la Jefatura Superior de Policía y la Comandancia de la Guardia Civil en Madrid. Leer más.
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For wood frogs in Alaska’s interior, Arctic weather is more than a temporary, headline-grabbing phenomenon. Frigid temperatures are the norm for months at a time. But these tiny amphibians cope quite well and represent an extreme in freeze-tolerant organisms, researchers reported here Monday at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Leer más.
Marine turtles are among the most endangered species of the world ocean. For a better protection of these fascinating animals, scientists try to understand why turtles return to their birthplace in order to reproduce after rather long distance migrations. Leer más.
One of the major experimental advances in recent decades has been the battery of methods capable of functionally validating hypotheses regarding the molecular networks that regulate biological processes. For biologists, these emerging methods allow us to move beyond descriptive and correlational studies to new dimensions where we can experimentally validate our observations. Leer más.
