The waxy monkey tree frog has evolved a unique “sunscreen” to survive harsh and arid conditions. This amphibian can survive in extreme heat and climate.
If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world ...
Love — or at least sex — was in the air of the small, windowless, biosecure room at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas. Sixteen rectangular, clear plastic bins lined the room’s back and side walls, tiny ...
In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...
The organs of a body are a spatial division of labour, one created by different genes being turned on or off in different cells. The same process serves to give individual lives a division of labour ...
THE SANTA ROSA PLATEAU ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, Calif. — The scientist traipses to a pond wearing rubber boots but he doesn’t enter the water. Instead, Brad Hollingsworth squats next to its swampy edge and ...
The picture, taken by a Reddit user during a zoology trip, shows the amphibian disguised by its surroundings. Tucked away and difficult to spot, the frog blends in with the green, orange and red ...
Herpetologist David Mora reaches for a red-legged froglet in a restoration pond that is part of a cross-border effort to bring back the native species in both Baja California, Mexico, and Southern ...