What lures a lady frog to her lover? Good looks, the sound of his voice, the size of his pad or none of the above? After weighing up their options, female strawberry poison frogs (Oophaga pumilio) bag the closest crooner they can, finds research in BioMed Central’s open access journal Frontiers of Zoology. Leer más.

Salamanders’ immune systems are key to their remarkable ability to regrow limbs, and could also underpin their ability to regenerate spinal cords, brain tissue and even parts of their hearts, scientists have found. Leer más.

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Renacuajo de notable tamaño que tiene desarrolladas sus extremidades traseras. Si nos fijamos bien en estas podemos identificarlo fácilmente. Leer más.

Feral goats and green iguanas wreaking havoc with the ecosystems in the small islands in the Pacific, biologists warn, in two separate studies published in Pacific Science last month, calling for control or elimination of these animals. Leer más.