The annual State of Observed Species report for 2011 has been released by the International Institute for Species Exploration. Highlighted in the report are the latest compilation figures for new wildlife species. The latest full
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The world’s smallest vertebrate — animals that have a backbone — is a frog that could sit within the confines of your fingernail, a new study reports.
BLOOMINGTON — There’s a bit of Indiana Jones in the life of assistant biology professor Edgar Lehr, but where Jones hated snakes, Lehr loves them. He’s a herpetologist who teaches about amphibians and reptiles at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.
HOUSTON – The Houston Zoo has received a rare animal officials say is the only one of its species to be housed at an American zoo.
Itanagar, Sept 20 (PTI) A new frog species with blue eyes has been discovered in Eagle Nest Wildlife sanctuary at Sessa in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.
It seems it is literally raining new frog species this monsoon.
Indian scientists have discovered as many as one dozen new species of frogs and rediscovered three lost ones in the biodiversity hotspot of the Western Ghats.
Bullock’s false toad (Telmatobufo bullocki), a rare and elusive species not seen since 2005, has been spotted in the Nahuelbuta mountain range in the Bío Bío and Araucanía Regions of Chile.
The species of burrowing frog called the Pilbara toadlet (Uperoleia saxatilis) measures approximately 2cm long and does not appear to be endangered. This brings the total number of toadlet species in Australia to 27, the second largest group of frog species in the country.
BRUNEI – Any new finds of unrecorded species of frogs made during the on-going wildlife study of Sungai Ingei Protection Forest will be included into the national inventory of amphibians, members of the scientific team said yesterday.
SYDNEY: A new miniature frog species has been identified in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, proving that the area is not as poor in biodiversity as thought.
Treasure trove of unknown varieties of animal, bird, fish, insect and plant have been identified in the forests and wetlands of the Pacific island over a period of just 10 years.
A new type of tree kangaroo, a 2.5-metre-long river shark, a frog with vampire-like fangs and a turquoise lizard are among hundreds of new [...]
CANBERRA, May 20, 2011 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — Australian scientists on Friday said they have discovered a new species of frog in Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland.
The researchers also located a colony of rare rock wallabies in the region that until now had never been photographed.
Already famous as an Amphibian hotspot with some 106 frog species, Sri Lanka now has two more tiny shrub frog species that don’t have a tadpole stage. Malaka Rodrigo talks to the young scientist Madhava Meegaskumbura who discovered them.
A worldwide hunt for amphibians has brought about the rediscovery of six long-lost frog species in Haiti.
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