A new species of legless amphibian resembling a giant earthworm or a snake has been discovered in a remote but threatened area of Cambodian rainforest. Leer más.
Molly Bletz wasn’t lost, exactly, but she could no longer see the lights from anyone else’s headlamp shining through the Madagascan rainforest. She switched off her own for a better look. The inky darkness was filled with the chirps, trills, and clicks of the frogs she was there to collect, but at the moment, Bletz couldn’t detect her own research partners. Leer más.
For swimming through sand, a slick and slender snake can perform better than a short and stubby lizard. That’s one conclusion from a study of the movement patterns of the shovel-nosed snake, a native of the Mojave Desert of the Southwest United States. Leer más.
The well-known theory that an asteroid suddenly killed the dinosaurs is based almost entirely on fossils from North America. Leer más.
A new species of siphonopid caecilian, Microcaecilia butantan sp. nov., is described based on four specimens from Belterra, in the State of Pará, Brazil. The new species differs from all other Microcaecilia in having a combination of more than 135 primary annuli and long premaxillary-maxillary tooth series that extend posteriorly beyond the choanae. Leer más.
