I can’t count the number of times I’ve turned the car around – or cajoled my wife or any other unfortunate driver I happen to be with at the time to do the same – after having caught a ‘glimpse’ at sixty-five miles an hour of what could only have been a western pond turtle on the side of the road. Leer más.

El projecte Exocat, finançat pel Departament d’Agricultura i coordinat pel CREAF , ha permès saber que a Catalunya hi ha 939 espècies exòtiques. D’aquestes, gairebé dos terços són plantes. Ir al video.

El yacimiento paleontológico excavado en la mina de carbón de Ariño (Teruel) ha permitido descubrir dos nuevas especies de cocodrilos de hace más de cien millones de años, «los últimos de su linaje» y antecesores de los grandes depredadores actuales. Leer más.

Scientists have developed the first map of the world’s most unique and most endangered mammals and amphibians. Leer más.

The Hewitt’s ghost frog is a medium-sized frog found in fast-flowing mountain rivers and streams in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. As undetectable as a ghost, this frog’s flat body allows it to hide in confined spaces during the day, such as holes and rock cracks, and emerge during the night. Leer más.