By Herp News These are sights that have rarely been seen by human eyes: a stealthy jaguar, a bustling giant armadillo, and, most amazingly, a sloth slurping up clay from the ground. A new compilation of camera trap videos from Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorean Amazon shows a staggering array of species, many cryptic […]
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Feb 13
Feb 13
Wonderful Creatures: the bizarre-looking marine worm with an incredibly important ecological role
By Herp News Almost everyone knows what an earthworm is, but these very familiar animals are just one variation on a very rich theme that is at its most fabulously varied in the oceans. The mind-boggling appearances and lifestyles of the marine segmented worms are perfectly exemplified by this week’s animal. Go to Source …read […]
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Who needs the NSA when you have frogs?
When the male túngara frog whispers sweet nothings into his loved one’s ear, it’s not a private conversation. From Wired: Male túngara frogs, native to Central and South America, gather at night in shallow ponds and call to attract females. They space themselves out carefully, each male defending a small calling site. Competition for females […]
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Ancient giant reptile's live birth preserved in 248-million-year old fossil
By Herp News Washington, February 13 (ANI): A new study has claimed that Ichthyosaur fossils may show the earliest live birth from an ancient Mesozoic marine reptile. Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that evolved from land reptiles and moved to the water. Ryosuke Motani and his colleagues from the University of California, Davis, reported a […]
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Live Birth Reptile Fossil Pre-Dates Current Record By 10 Million Years
By Herp News A live birth reptile fossil found recently has scientists dumbfounded, pre-dating the current record by millions of years. It was previously believed that reptiles bore young tail-first, and mammals gave birth to their young head-first. According to National Geographic, the … Go to Source …read more Read more here: herpetofauna.com No products […]
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