Malpartida de Cáceres va a ser escenario el día 8 de junio, sábado, de la I Jornada de Estudio de la Herpetofauna (estudio sobre reptiles y anfibios) en el Monumento Natural de Los Barruecos. Esta jornada está organizada por la Asociación Arbórea, con la colaboración de la Sociedad de Gestión Pública GPEX, el Fondo Europeo Agrícola y la Consejería de Agricultura de la Junta de Extremadura, además, lógicamente, del Monumento Natural de Los Barruecos. Leer más.

An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. A global committee of taxonomists — scientists responsible for species exploration and classification — announced its list of top 10 species from 2012 today, May 23. Leer más.

Relative to large-bodied dinosaurs, the diversity of small-bodied dinosaurs from the Campanian of North America is poorly understood due to a lack of well-preserved skeletons. We document the first articulated remains, as well as the first cranial bones, of non-iguanodontian ornithopods from the Belly River Group of Alberta. The geologically oldest specimen consists of the posterior half of an articulated skeleton from the middle unit of the Oldman Formation and shares many anatomical features with the contemporaneous Orodromeus makelai and the older Oryctodromeus cubicularis. Leer más.

A new species of montane toad Duttaphrynus is described from Nagaland state of Northeast India. Leer más.

Natural hybridisation of Bufo (Pseudepidalea) viridis LAURENTI, 1768 and Bufo (Bufo) bufo LINNEUS, 1758 was reported occasionally from Germany, the Czech Republic and Italy. Additionaly, hybrids of both species were bred in the laboratory, hybrid spawn, tadpoles and toadlets from these two species are subject to high mortality. Leer más.