Durante una exploración herpetológica en el Chocó Colombiano y enmarcado dentro del proyecto internacional Ranas Perdidas con el apoyo de USFWS (Wildlife without borders), el equipo de la expedición compuesto por Alonso Quevedo, Felipe Barrera, Uberney Garcia, JuanCarlos Luna, Luis Rubelio Garcia (Fundación ProAves), Robin Moore (Conservación Internacional), Don Church, Wes Sechrest, Nikki Wickman (Global Wildlife Conservation) y Lucy Cooke (periodista), hallaron 3 especies probablemente nuevas para la ciencia, especies muy raras y endémicas del Chocó. |  |
 | It seems that Triceratops lived away from rivers, duck-billed dinosaurs dwelled near rivers, and T. rex was equally common everywhere, probably because the beast went wherever there was meat, researchers find. The age of dinosaurs was a time of giants, and near the end of this era, these behemoths often lived surprisingly close to one another in the coastal lowlands of North America. As such, vertebrate paleontologists Tyler Lyson and Nicholas Longrich at Yale University reasoned the titans might have divided the landscape among themselves, so as to not constantly butt heads. |
Como se os dinossauros, ou pelo menos alguns deles, já não fossem grandes o bastante, um novo estudo relata que os esqueletos que vemos em museus deveriam ser até 30 centímetros mais altos do que o são hoje. Os dinossauros, escreveram paleontólogos na revista científica «PLoS One», tinham grossos pedaços de cartilagem entre suas juntas –e isso aumentava sua altura.
Tim Rowe, professor of paleontology at The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, led the effort to describe the new dinosaur along with co-authors Hans-Dieter Sues, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC and Robert R. Reisz, professor and chair of biology at the University of Toronto. The description appears in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Oct. 6. Sarahsaurus, which lived about 190 million years ago during the Early Jurassic Period, was 14 feet long and weighed about 250 pounds. Sarahsaurus was a sauropodomorph, a small but closely related ancestor to sauropods, the largest land animals in history. |  |
 | En el marco del XI Congreso luso-español de Herpetología, que se ha celebrado en Sevilla, Pleguezuelos ha recalcado, en una entrevista con la Agencia Efe, la importancia de la conservación de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de Andalucía, por encima de las del resto de Europa, ya que poseen «más diversidad genética». «Al encontrarse en el cuadrante del sureste ibérico, que se caracteriza por ser más árido y con menos precipitaciones, no hay mucha variedad de reptiles y, menos aún, de anfibios, pero en los genes está todo lo que somos y es interesante que la comunidad tenga esta aportación», ha sostenido el investigador. |
