The Herpetologists’ League is pleased to announce the 2014 competition for The Herpetologists’ League Graduate Research Awards, If you are an M.S. or Ph.D. student with research results, then you may be eligible to apply for an award. Note that the application no longer requires an extended abstract. To participate, you must … Leer más.
When Dr Vimoksalehi Lukoschek started her research on the evolution of sea snakes she needed a location with plenty of animals to study. Ashmore Reef was an obvious choice. Lying about halfway between Australia’s Kimberley coast and East Timor, Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve was renowned for being a sea snake hot spot. Previous surveys had found high numbers of sea snakes of a huge variety, some not found anywhere else in the world. Leer más.
It may be bony looking, but a newly unearthed fossil of a baby dinosaur is so complete that it appears to hop out of the rock in which it was entombed. Leer más.
About 65 million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into a shallow sea near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The resulting firestorm and global dust cloud caused the extinction of many land plants and large animals, including most of the dinosaurs. Leer más.
There’s a real crocodile behind that mask, according to new computed tomography (CT) scans of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy (pictured). The 8-foot-long (2.4-meter-long) artifact—wrapped in once colorful linen and outfitted with a stylized mask—is one of two crocodile mummy bundles scanned this month at the Stanford School of Medicine in California. Leer más.
