The Kihansi Spray Toad, Nectophrynoides asperginis, was restricted to the smallest known range for any vertebrate species, with an estimated historic wild population of 17,000 toads found within 2 hectares of waterfall spray zone in the Kihansi Gorge of the Udzungwa Mountains in south-central Tanzania. Leer más.

The conference will be organized by Macedonian Ecological Society (FYR of Macedonia) and Serbian Herpetological Society “Milutin Radovanović” (Serbia), in Struga, FYR of Macedonia. Leer más.

“Bones upon bones, we couldn’t believe our eyes,” says Oliver Wings, paleontologist and guest researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He was describing the spectacular find of some 1800 fossilized mesa chelonia turtles from the Jurassic era in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang. Wings and the University of Tübingen’s fossil turtle specialist, Dr. Walter Joyce, were working with Chinese paleontologists there in 2008.  Leer más.

Vivió hace 95 millones de años en el noroeste de la provincia de Río Negro (Argentina) donde en 2005 se hallaron restos articulados fosilizados que permitieron, 7 años después, reproducir su figura, de unos 50 centímetros de largo y 20 de altura. Leer más.

We have the nicest readers here at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs (most of the time), and Jon Davies just happens to be one of them. The scholarly Mr Davies, in a gesture of profoundly moving generosity, has allowed me to borrow a stack of much-loved dinosaur books from his youth so that I might gently poke fun at them. Thank you, Jon, you are a gentleman!. Leer más.