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New Species of Lizard Discovered
A new species of lizard doesn’t come along every day. Even less common is a new lizard species named for a 1960s rock star.
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New Species of Lizard Discovered
A new species of lizard doesn’t come along every day. Even less common is a new lizard species named for a 1960s rock star.
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Pesticides significantly reduce biodiversity in aquatic environments
The pesticides, many of which are currently used in Europe and Australia, are responsible for reducing the regional diversity of invertebrates in streams and rivers by up to 42 percent, researchers report in the Proceedings of the US Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Mikhail A. Beketov and Matthias Liess from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, together with Ben Kefford from the University of Technology, Sydney and Ralf B. Schäfer from the Institute for Environmental Sciences Landau, analysed [...]
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Bullfrogs may help spread deadly amphibian fungus, but also die from it
Amphibian populations are declining worldwide and a major cause is a deadly fungus thought to be spread by bullfrogs, but a two-year study shows they can also die from this pathogen, contrary to suggestions that bullfrogs are a tolerant carrier host that just spreads the disease.
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The Karpathos Frog
The Karpathos Frog, Pelophylax cerigensis, is listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM and is one of the most endangered frogs due to its isolated, small range. It is endemic to the island of Karpathos in Greece, and found only in a single river in the north of the island. Its range is thought to be only 10 km2. This frog is largely aquatic and can be found in slow-moving streams and permanent still waters. [...]
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Archey’s Frog
Leiopelma archeyi, commonly known as Archey’s Frog, is listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM as ‘Critically Endangered’. Archey’s Frog is a small green-brown frog found only in New Zealand, where it lives on the North Island in the Coromandel Peninsula and the Whareorino Forest. This frog prefers moist forest at altitudes of 400 – 1000 m. It is the smallest of the four remaining endemic Leiopelma species and is one of the world’s most primitive species of [...]
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The Chalazodes Bubble-nest Frog
The Chalazodes Bubble-nest Frog, Raorchestes chalazodes, is listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. The Chalazodes Bubble-nest Frog was first found in 1874 in ‘Travancore’, Kerala, India. Then, this species was not recorded for over 125 years until it was rediscovered in July 2000 on the south-western slopes of the Cardamom Hills, Kerala, India. The species is now known to be a nocturnal and arboreal frog that lives in the understory of moist tropical evergreen [...]
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Front Row Seats to Climate Change
By day, insects provide the white noise of the South, but the night belongs to the amphibians. In a typical year, the Southern air hangs heavy from the humidity and the sounds of wildlife. The Southeast, home to more than 140 species of frogs, toads and salamanders, is the center of amphibian biodiversity in our nation. If the ponds and swamps are the auditorium for their symphonic choruses, the scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative, [...]
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The Importance of Fire
Wildfires can be devastating to property and lives. But the fact is many of our native habitats are fire-dependent and will eventually burn sooner or later.
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The Sardinian or Gene’s Cave Salamander
Amazing Amphibians #10: Classified as ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM, the Sardinian or Gene’s Cave Salamander, Atylodes genei, is endemic to Europe, occurring only in southwest Sardinia, Italy. It has a relatively small range (less than 20,000 km2) and has been recorded in fewer than 10 locations. This species lives in moist rocky outcrops, caves, and forested areas near streams. The Sardinian Cave Salamander is amazing for being lungless and for laying eggs on land that hatch into [...]
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