Belgian researcher Philippe Kok (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) describes two new endangered frog species from northern South America in the European Journal of Taxonomy. The IUCN conservation status of the newly discovered frogs is considered as Endangered (EN). Leer más.

Midwife toads singing to attract females, Dr Rafael Márquez CSIC performed ingenious experiments to find out which are the most attractive. Leer más.

Ana Luisa Nunes, Germán Orizaola, Anssi Laurila, Rui Rebelo. Ecology. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-1380.1. Ir al enlace.

History has been hard on the Hungarian Meadow Viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis). A subspecies of the grassland dwelling meadow viper (Vipera ursinii), it has been persecuted under the false fear that it may be dangerous, caught and sold as pets and poisoned by agricultural chemicals. Leer más.

Heading to the remote Indonesian island of Rinca to photograph a modern-day dinosaur was all Stefano Unterthiner’s idea. A zoologist as well as a photographer, he says: «I have always been fascinated by working with the Komodo dragon. [The Komodo] is full of mystery. Leer más.