The Yucatecan Casquehead Tree Frog lives throughout the Yucatan Peninsula, spending most of its time in holes in trees. Their unique head shape is used to block the entrances to these holes and due to the ossification of their head, they lose very little water this way compared to frogs blocking the holes with their body.  Leer más.

Table Mountain stands isolated – an ancient, rocky beacon of biodiversity amidst the bustling city Cape Town at the south-western tip of Africa. Its fairytale gorges and tea-coloured streams are home to an iconic but elusive amphibian – the Table Mountain Ghost Frog. The Ghosts of Table Mountain reveals the secret life of the Critically Endangered Table Mountain Ghost Frog and the freshwater ecosystems it inhabits.  Leer más.

Tres nuevas especies de serpientes en Ecuador. Un grupo de científicos dirigido por Alejandro Arteaga, beneficiario de The Explorers Club Discovery Expeditions e investigador de la Fundación Khamai, descubrió tres nuevas serpientes criptozoicas (que viven bajo tierra) escondidas debajo de cementerios e iglesias en pueblos remotos de los Andes de Ecuador. Leer más.

Most swamp-dwelling dusky salamanders of the genus Desmognathus from the Coastal Plain were long treated as a single species (Desmognathus auriculatus) ranging from east Texas to southeastern Virginia. This taxon concept was based on the name Salamandra auriculata Holbrook, 1838 with type locality Riceboro, Liberty County, Georgia and a type series that could not be located by later authors. Leer más.