I'm honored to serve as a judge on the ASA's new amphibian photography contest. We hope to raise some funds to support ASA and feature great work from around the world. Please enter your shots.. www.amphibians.org/photography-... Entry fee for up to 10 images = $25 Grand prize = $1000.
Dedicated to the worldwide conservation of amphibians and their habitats.
A new unknown disease has appeared in salamanders causing abnormal skin shedding and death. Scientists are rushing to understand how the disease is spread.
It is, finally, the right season for this Larkin poem.
“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. … notice it in the instant when love begins. … Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
~Mary Oliver,
Don't Hesitate (2010)
Halictina bee on Hookers Balsamroot
Bad news Monday 🧪
RIP Peter Raven.
news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete...
news.mongabay.com/2007/03/biod... is a good interview from several years back.
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An unidentified disease in salamanders rings alarm bells
Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...
Bloodroot and hepatica fleeting harbingers of spring… my favorite native flowers
Scientist and medtech entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics
The Wildlife Society
Scorpions have stingers fortified with zinc and manganese at the tip of the needle.... www.ttownmedia.com/news/nationa...
very interesting overview of the current state of trade in amphibians for pets in the USA from Viadanna et al. 👏https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352513426002358
Cool paper from Jeckel et. Al explaining how some dart frogs are spicier than others… 😝 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Scientist and medtech entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics
www.scientificamerican.com
The distribution and scale of metal enrichment among the deadly arthropods' weapons have been discovered for the first time.
The amphibian pet trade is growing in the U.S. While there are anecdotal reports of an increasing emphasis on selling captive-bred animals, millions o…
Abstract. The evolution of alkaloid sequestration and modification in poison frogs provides an opportunity to explore the emergence of complex traits, part
