The harlequin mantella, Mantella cowani, is one of the most threatened amphibians of Madagascar. Restricted to a few residual forest fragments of Madagascar’s highlands, it was until a few years ago collected for the pet-trade. Leer más.
It takes a gutsy insect to sneak up on a huge dinosaur while it sleeps, crawl onto its soft underbelly and give it a bite that might have felt like a needle going in — but giant «flea-like» animals, possibly the oldest of their type ever discovered, probably did just that. Leer más.
In one of the greatest episodes of a “scoop” in scientific history, Alfred Russell Wallace’s co-discovery of evolution by natural selection has relegated him to a perpetual footnote to Charles Darwin’s transformative theory. Leer más.
The Mallorcan Midwife Toad, Alytes muletensis, is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Endemic to the island of Mallorca, this species is also named for its unusual parental care, in which the male carries the developing eggs. Leer más.
