This PhD project in Ecology is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will be based at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (IEU). The Aldabra Atoll in the Western Indian Ocean is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to 100,000 giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) – the largest surviving population of giant tortoises in the world. The project aims at dramatically improving our understanding of the role of the giant tortoises as seed dispersers. We will investigate multiple levels of ecological organisation, from individual behaviour and the outcome of pairwise interactions, to community-level interaction patterns. Leer más.

A new species, Gekko lauhachindai sp. nov. is described from Saraburi Province in central Thailand. It is a member of the mid-sized Gekko petricolus group and within this group it is probably most closely related to G. grossmanni Günther, 1994, G. scientiadventura Rösler et al., 2005, G. russelltraini Ngo et al., 2009, and G. takouensis Ngo & Gamble, 2010 with which it shares a similar dorsal pattern. Leer más.

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An over 22-foot-long crocodile that ripped prey to death and another huge croc that sucked prey to its doom were at the top of the European marine food chain 150 million years ago, a new study finds. Leer más.

En el V Congreso del Jurásico de España, celebrado en el MUJA en septiembre de 2010 (véase DinoAstur, 13-9-2010), el equipo de investigación del museo presentó un trabajo en el que se describía un diente de cocodrilo del Jurásico Superior de La Griega (Formación Tereñes, Kimmeridgiense) que se asignó al género Dakosaurus. Leer más.