A Southeast Asian dicroglossid frog, long known as Limnonectes laticeps, has recently been synonymized with L. khasianus. The Bornean population of this species is very divergent acoustically from some conspecific populations from the continent. Leer más.
In the swamps, marshes, streams, and estuaries of northern Australia and southeastern Asia live ancient snakes as thick as your arm, with tongues as thin as a thread, skin as rough as a file, and a disposition as gentle as a lamb. Leer más.
Recently, a 2006 paper on giant land tortoise dispersal has been going around social media. The story is that a tortoise from Aldabra, a tiny speck of an island north of Madagascar, washed ashore in Tanzania, some 700+ kilometers away. Leer más.
Biologists have just released 17 juvenile critically endangered Siamese crocodiles into a protected wetland in Lao PDR. The one-to-two-year-old crocodiles, which range between 50-100 cm (20-39 inches) in length, were raised in facilities to protect the endangered reptiles and their habitat. Leer más.
 | El tercer día en las Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas nos trajo otra buena sorpresa. Desde el primer día busque a este saurio, pero hasta el tercero no dimos con el o el dio con nosotros. Es un endemismo ibérico cuya distribución mundial se reduce a unas sierras del suroeste de la península ibérica. Fue descubierto para la ciencia por José Antonio Valverde en los años cincuenta. Leer más. |
