Giant Caribbean Mountain Chicken Frog On The Brink Of Extinction

2023-10-16 09:00 PM by Jessica Irvine

Urgent action is needed to save one of the world’s largest frogs from one of the world’s most devastating wildlife diseases as the latest survey reveals just 21 individuals remain in the wild © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee A Critically Endangered Mountain Chicken Frog (Leptodactylus fallax). (Credit: Copyright by Ben …

Amphibians’ Remarkable Adaptation: Altering Chemical Landscape to Outwit Snakes Amidst a Plague

2023-07-26 07:40 AM by Jessica Irvine

This captivating tale portrays the intricate and powerful consequences of an ongoing arms race between predator and prey in the animal kingdom. Oscaecilia ochrocephala, commonly found in Panama and Colombia, dwells primarily in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, rural gardens, and degraded former forests. Caecilians are legless serpentine burrowing amphibians that inhabit soil …