/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/75/ed/75ed16cf-58d8-4bcd-ac46-e129dcf7a6be/dsc4464_copia.jpg "The Surprise Reappearance of a Rare Frog Has Scientists Leaping to Protect Its Habitat | Science")
The word “marsupial” typically evokes a kangaroo or perhaps a koala, something furry and warm-blooded that protects its babies in a pouch. But a surprising variety of creatures have evolved this unusual means of parental care, including crustaceans, seahorses—and frogs. With jaunty peaks sticking up from its eyelids that may help it camouflage as a …
Thick-billed parrot populations have declined to fewer than 2000 individuals due to habitat loss, logging and climate change © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee The thick-billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) is a medium-sized parrot endemic to Mexico that … [+] formerly ranged into the southwestern United States. Its phylogeny is the subject …
It is essential to reframe the mainstream media’s coverage of bats if we are ensure they will be alive to see future Halloweens © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Flying bat hunting in forest. The grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) is a fairly large … [+] European bat. It has distinctive …
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By Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation As darkness descends across the eastern coast of Australia, thousands of gray-headed flying foxes take to the skies. Armed with a keen sense of smell and sharp night vision, they roam to find food after resting all day. Some might travel as far as 30 miles in …
By Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation As darkness descends across the eastern coast of Australia, thousands of gray-headed flying foxes take to the skies. Armed with a keen sense of smell and sharp night vision, they roam to find food after resting all day. Some might travel as far as 30 miles in …
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 …
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Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent I hear them long before I see them. As I clamber out of my car in the parking lot near Point Piedras Blancas just off California’s Highway 1, the grunting noises of dozens of elephant seals fill the air. I walk quickly to the wooden viewing platform, lean up against the …
High-tech tracking reveals red-crowned parrots have four main roosts in Texas: Brownsville, Harlingen, Weslaco and McAllen © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes | LinkTr.ee Red-crowned Parrot (Amazona viridigenalis) Redlands, California. (Credit: Tom Benson / CC BY-NC-ND … [+] 2.0) Tom Benson via a Creative Commons license After conducting a high-tech survey of red-crowned …
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Anthony Ham Freelance writer The armed men aren’t supposed to be here. We are several miles inside Buffalo Springs National Reserve in northern Kenya, and the driver I hired for this reporting project and I are checking out a rumor that the reserve’s elephants may have gone missing. Nearly 8,000 elephants have inhabited the broader …
Flower of Glossolomamagenticristatum J.L.Clark, D.Hoyos & Clavijo David Sanín A plant species new to science, already characterized as endangered, faces a very specific threat: periodic roadside maintenance. Glossoloma ranges from southern Mexico to Bolivia, 16 species found in the western lowland Andean forests of Colombia and Ecuador, but a new species, Glossolomamagenticristatum, was found in …