Imagine measuring the tail of a squirmy, inch-long tadpole. Now imagine doing that where the air is thin enough to make you dizzy, a hail storm is about to start and you just spent 45 minutes up to your elbows in a freezing cold stream. Leer más.
This unique 7-day course will introduce majors and graduate students in Wildlife Science, Conservation Ecology, and Biological Science to a variety of topics relevant to field and laboratory research involving amphibians and reptiles. Leer más.
A pair of researchers have rediscovered a long-lost frog in the tiny African country of Burundi. Known as the Bururi long-fingered frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila), the species hadn’t been seen for over 60 years—since the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949—but was rediscovered in Bururi Forest Reserve.Leer más.
South American paleontologists report they have discovered fossilized embryos of the oldest aquatic reptiles, lagoon-dwelling «mesosaurs» that lived about 280 million years ago. Leer más.
