Most people try not to associate themselves with bad breath, let alone the smells of purifying flesh. But that doesn’t deny the fact that your body naturally contains the same chemical underlying both of these smells—and in the future, people may even pay good money for that chemical, as new research shows that it helps (amphibian) victims of epileptic seizures. Leer más.
Some animals make humans look like wimps. There’s the mummichog, a fish that can thrive in polluted water that kills almost anything else. The desert long-eared bat is remarkably blasé about being stung in the face by scorpions, and the fly Cacoxenus indagator can headbutt its way through rock. Leer más.
Interim results of the UK National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme Widespread Species Surveys. Descargar pdf.
 | During the latter half of the 1980s, when I was just becoming acquainted with dinosaurs, “Brontosaurus” was just on its way out. A few of my books depicted the lumbering dinosaur, and a few museums still had the wrong heads on their skeletons, but the images of slow, stupid Brontosaurus were slowly being replaced by Apatosaurus. By the time the U.S. Postal Service issued a Brontosaurus postage stamp in 1989, dinosaur fans were quick to point out that the animal was called Apatosaurus and that the old name had been tossed in the taxonomic dustbin. |
 | As we’ve mentioned in this blog before, the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project partners are not just trying to save species of frogs in Panama, but also in their own backyards. Here is an account of one local project that partner the Houston Zoo has taken on. In the spring of 2010, the Houston Zoo piloted a new conservation education program called Toad Trackers. In the first year of this one-of-a-kind, interactive program, the Houston Zoo ‘tracked’ 39 coastal plains toads (Bufo nebulifer) and ‘discovered’ 88 new amphibian enthusiasts. |
