Do you like snakes, lizards and frogs? Why herpetology might be the career for you: The author handling a boomslang as part of her work with a conservation organisation. Chris Cooke, Author provided We are so fortunate to share the world with a huge diversity of creatures. For me, some of the most fascinating are …
From bird poo frogs to alligator snapping turtles – here are nature’s masters of deception: A young cuckoo being fed by its adoptive mother. John Navajo/Shutterstock In nature, there are winners and losers. The winners gain survival and reproduction, while the losers generally die. To gain an advantage, winners may adopt strategies that involve elements …
Ancient frogs in mass grave died from too much sex – new research: The author looking at fossil specimens from the Geiseltal collection in Germany Daniel Falk, Author provided Frogs once lived alongside dinosaurs. About 45 million years ago, the North Sea covered half of Germany. It’s incredible to think these little creatures survived the …
South Africa in the news: South Africa: Population of Critically-Endangered Thumbnail-Sized Frogs Found in South Africa: A new population of tiny frogs, each no bigger than a thumbnail, has been discovered near the southern tip of Africa in a vast wetland more than four times the size of Paris.: “South Africa” – BingNews Covid-19 watch: …
This frog’s lungs act like noise cancelling headphones: Clever frog. Shutterstock/Martin Valigursky For us humans, having a conversation in a crowded room is challenging – it’s often called the cocktail party problem. The mix of sounds arriving at our eardrums needs to be analysed to pick out the sounds of individual talkers and that’s a …
How we turned a golf course into a haven for rare newts, frogs and toads: Erni/Shutterstock Around two in five amphibian species are threatened with extinction around the world. In Britain, all of our native frog, toad and newt species have declined since 1945, with one species – the pool frog – dying out in …
Lifting the lid on how frogs find their way to foreign lands: Bernard DUPONT/Flickr This article is the fourth in a series. The Conversation Africa is running on invasive species. A bunch of bananas seems like an unlikely mode of transport for frogs to invade the world. But it’s not far-fetched. In South Africa bananas …