The Associated Press is reporting that United States Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the Puerto Rican coqui llanero treefrog (Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi) as an endangered species. The tiny treefrog is about the size of a human toenail and has a high pitched frequency when communicating with other frogs that can barely be heard by the human ear. The agency has proposed to set aside more than 600 acres of wetlands in the northern portion of the island nation as the frog’s critical habitat. Leer más.
El próximo domingo, 16 de octubre, la organización ecologista WWF colocará 300 metros de vallas en la M-301 para denunciar el problema de la mortandad de anfibios a su paso por esta carretera. Leer más.
An examination of a small fossil — the tip of a toothed pterosaur’s snout and a bit of its tooth — has revealed that a group of the extinct, flying reptiles could reach sizes larger than previously thought. leer más.
La Sala de Exposiciones del “Espai la Senieta” de Moraira acoge hasta el 31 de octubre una exposición divulgativa relativa a los galápagos autóctonos y sus problemas de conservación. Leer más.
An eastern diamond rattlesnake recently gave successful birth five years after mating, according to a new paper that describes this longest known instance of sperm storage, outside of insects, in the animal kingdom. Leer más.
