• Hallada una nueva especie de anfibio en el sur de Ecuador

    Una nueva especie de anfibio de cabeza prominente, no descrita con anterioridad, ha sido descubierta en el sur de Ecuador, en una investigación desarrollada por un...
    El Comercio


  • Patterns of toad fatalities on a Brazilian Amazonian railroad

    While vehicular collisions on roads are known to kill numerous wildlife each year, railroads have received substantially less attention, particularly with respect...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Jewels of the Neotropics

    Jewels of the Neotropics, a production of Poison Dart Frogs, The Documentary Project, is a conservation testimony that gives voice to a peculiar family of amphibians of Central and South...
    YouTube


  • Azuay y Loja, el paraíso de las ranas marsupiales

    Las ciudades de Cuenca y Loja sorprenden al mundo científico al albergar en su área urbana a dos especies nuevas de ranas marsupiales.
    Zootaxa


  • Nueva rana de cristal amenazada por la minería

    En un estudio colaborativo entre la Universidad San Francisco de Quito-USFQ, The Biodiversity Group, Fundación Cóndor Andino, Fundación EcoMinga y Third Millennium...
    PeerJ


  • What does a Pacman eat?

    Macrophagy and necrophagy in a generalist predator (Ceratophrys stolzmanni). We describe for the first time the feeding ecology of the Pacific horned frog (Ceratophrys stolzmanni), as inferred through...
    PeeerJ


  • A Tale Of Two Frogs (And Some Of The Biologists Who Love Them)

    In recent years, amphibian researcher Ignacio De la Riva has been nervous to answer his phone. He’s been afraid to get the worst kind of news for a man who has had a life-long love...
    Global Wildlife Conservat


  • Species delimitation in endangered groundwater salamanders

    The Edwards-Trinity aquifer system of west-central Texas is one of the richest groundwater ecosystems on earth, home to dozens of endemic species with narrow distributions. In...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Forscher entdecken totgesagte Art

    Experts had already declared him extinct. But after about a decade, this bizarre frog species was spotted again in Ecuador.
    Spiegel Online


  • Breeding the ‘Snot Otter’

    The gigantic Ozark hellbender salamander is in trouble in the wild, but one zoo — and a hard-working team — is helping to boost its populations. The two-foot-long salamanders that live in Missouri...
    The Revelator


  • Sartore retrata la fauna en peligro de extinción

    Un ejemplar de arlequín verrugoso de Morona Santiago (Atelopus halihelos), fue fotografiado para National Geographic Photo Ark en el Centro Jambatu. Esta especie está...
    El Comercio


  • Meet Romeo, 'world’s loneliest frog,' and his new mate Juliet

    New photographs reveal the critically endangered amphibians, which are native to a single stream in Bolivia. Romeo, the frog formerly known as the world’s loneliest, has joined...
    National Geographic


  • The loneliest frog on Earth finds love—and perhaps his species’s salvation

    For “Romeo” the Sehuencas water frog, the fate of his species could rest on his first date in more than a decade, BBC reports.
    Science


  • World's 'loneliest' frog gets a date

    A frog believed to be the last of his kind in the world has been granted a reprieve from solitude. Romeo, known as the world's loneliest frog, has spent 10 years in isolation at an aquarium in Bolivia.
    BBC


  • La rana con cuernos fue reencontrada

    La rana marsupial con cuernos fue vista por última vez en Ecuador en el 2005. Después de 13 años, en los que se creía que había desaparecido, fue nuevamente encontrada en una zona del Chocó ecuatoriano. Ahora se...
    El Comercio


  • How to ensure that new taxonomic names are properly published in electronic publication

    The Onion recently announced the discovery of a new species of ranid frog from Michigan, Lithobates michiganus. The species is...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • A new treefrog from Cordillera del Cóndor

    The Hyloscirtus larinopygion group is a clade of 16 species of large hylids that inhabit cascading Andean streams. They have brown coloration that, in most species, contrasts...
    ZooKeys


  • Variation in temperature preferences, affects susceptibility to chytridiomycosis in amphibians

    One outstanding debate in the chytrid literature is whether amphibians use behavioral thermoregulation to fight off...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Once thought extinct, bizarre horned frog reappears in Ecuador

    This strange frog, which incubates eggs on its back, disappeared for more than a decade before being rediscovered. Unseen for more than a decade, the enigmatic and...
    National Geographic


  • The critical need of museum collections

    We have entered a new epoch – the Anthropocene – in which human activities play a dominant role in governing Earth processes. Well-curated museum collections offer...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • The reproductive biology of the Myristica Swamp tree frog

    Described in 2013, Mercurana myristicapalustris is a rare frog species that has a limited range, inhabiting the once-widespread evergreen Myristica swamp forests...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Especie nueva (soltera) de cutín

    En los Andes del Ecuador, La Reserva Las Gralarias es una de las localidades mejor estudiada en cuanto a su batrachofauna. Sin embargo, como se espera en cualquier comunidad, algunas especies son raras y, por...
    Zootaxa


  • An interaction between climate change and infectious disease drove widespread amphibian declines

    Climate change might drive species declines by altering species interactions, such as host–parasite interactions. However, few studies...
    Global Change Biology


  • Haiti’s amphibians threatened by nearly complete loss of primary forest

    Haiti has experienced rapid deforestation. A new report in PNAS (Hedges et al. 2018) finds that forest cover was reduced to 4.4% in 1988...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Larval salamanders are as effective at short-term mosquito predation as mosquitofish

    As a disease vector, it is important to control mosquito populations. However, biological control with introduced mosquitofish (Gambusia...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Evolutionary melting pots and reproductive isolation

    Ring species, complexes of populations that differentiate genetically around a natural barrier, should be relatively common based on the large array of natural...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Plan de hábitat de anfibios, en riesgo por vandalismo

    La CGA analiza la posibilidad de reubicar una de las pozas e intervendrá en las otras nueve para garantizar la continuidad del proyecto ecológico. El hábitat de...
    El Tiempo


  • Bogotá: ranas en peligro de extinción que iban a ser traficadas a Alemania

    Algunas de las más de 200 ranas murieron por la brutalidad con las que fueron empacadas. Les rompieron los dedos porque no cabían en el empaque. En las...
    RCN


  • Bullfrog facilitates pathogen invasion

    Invasive species can harm native ecosystems by providing a pathway for pathogen invasion. For amphibians, the most devastating pathogen is the chytridiomycete fungus Batrachochytrium...
    AmphibiaWeb


  • Uncovering hidden diversity in glass frogs

    The glassfrog Centrolene buckleyi has been recognized as a species complex. Herein, using coalescence-based species delimitation methods, we evaluate the specific diversity...
    PeerJ