One of the missing three was discovered in the Natural History Museum several years ago by Dr Andrew Milner whilst studying turtles and other reptiles, but the whereabouts of the other two remained a mystery. However, further research led him to the National Museum Cardiff where a fossil turtle in the collections was positively identified as one of Owen’s missing specimens. Leer más.

Some unexpected findings during the genetic tagging of sea turtles revealed the prevalence of mother and daughter turtles nesting at the same time. Leer más.

The legume forest in the arroyo on the north side of Graffiti Hill on the U.S. Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is an anole-rich environment, including Anolis smallwoodi.  But it is also has high densities of the Cuban boa, Epicrates angulifer. Smaller Cuban boas can often be seen in the canopy, looking for- smallwoodi?  While radio-tracking Cuban boas in the aforementioned arroyo I came upon the entwined skeletons of a juvenile Cuban boa and an Anolis smallwoodi, the result of an encounter that was lethal for both participants. Leer más.

A deadly fungus sweeping the world is behind the mass death of hundreds of amphibian species. Researchers in Europe have teamed up to work out how to stop it – can they succeed? Leer más.

The NA2RE project compiles updated data about the distribution of European amphibians and reptiles, based in a system of distributed online databases. This is an evolution of the Atlas of European Amphibians and Reptiles published by the Societas Europaea Herpetologica in 1997 and reedited in 2004 (with a new chapter about taxonomical changes).  Leer más.