Research published recently in PLoS ONE delivers new insight about rapid toxin evolution in venomous snakes: pitvipers such as rattlesnakes may be engaged in an arms race with opossums, a group of snake-eating American marsupials. Leer más.

Tan solo el 9,4% de las especies animales con peor estado de conservación poseen al menos un plan de actuación en alguna parte de su área de distribución». El resto, es decir la gran mayoría, no tiene ninguno, según revela el informe Biodiversidad 2010. Leer más.

Exceptionally preserved fossils of insect cocoons have allowed researchers in Argentina to describe how wasps played an important role in food webs devoted to consuming rotting dinosaur eggs. The research is published in the scientific journal Palaeontology. Leer más.

Scientists from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) found three of the missing long-legged Borneo rainbow toads up a tree during a night time search. Leer más.

In the history of the planet, only one set of land animals ever reached truly gigantic proportions — the sauropod dinosaurs. The biggest may have stretched more than 40 metres and approached 100 tonnes. Now scientists are unravelling how evolutionary adaptations in small dinosaurs enabled the emergence of such  gargantuan beasts. Leer más.