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World's Smallest Vertebrate: Tiny Frogs Discovered in New Guinea
January 11, 2012 — Biologists just discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which is now the world's tiniest known vertebrate, averaging only 7.7 millimeters in size -- less than one-third of an inch. ... > full story -
New Hope to Save Hemlock Trees from Attack
January 10, 2012 — Thousands of broken trees line the banks of the Chattooga River. The dead gray stabs were once evergreen monsters offering shade to trout and picturesque views to visitors. These Eastern hemlocks are ... > full story -
Novel Anti-Viral Immune Pathway Discovered in Mosquito
January 10, 2012 — Virginia Tech researchers have identified a novel anti-viral pathway in the immune system of culicine mosquitoes, the insect family to which mosquitoes that spread yellow fever, West Nile fever, ... > full story -
New 'Horned' Snake Species Discovered
January 9, 2012 — Biologists have announced the discovery of a spectacularly colored snake from a remote area of Tanzania in East ... > full story -
New Primate Species Discovered on Madagascar
January 7, 2012 — Biologists have discovered a new primate species in the Sahafina Forest in eastern Madagascar, a forest that has not been studied before. The name of the new species is Gerp’s mouse lemur ... > full story -
A New Wild Ginger Discovered from the Evergreen Forest of Western Ghats of South India
January 6, 2012 — Recent explorations in the evergreen forest of western Ghats resulted in the discovery of a new wild relative of the large cardamom from South ... > full story -
Salt Water Alone Unlikely to Halt Burmese Python Invasion
January 4, 2012 — Invasive Burmese python hatchlings from the Florida Everglades can withstand exposure to salt water long enough to potentially expand their range through ocean and estuarine ... > full story -
Ecologists Call for Screening Imported Plants to Prevent a New Wave of Invasive Species
January 4, 2012 — A recent analysis suggests that climate change predicted for the United States will boost demand for imported drought- and heat-tolerant landscaping plants from Africa and the Middle East. This ... > full story -
Early Land Plants: Early Adopters
January 4, 2012 — A newly described species of a liverwort (very simple, small plants, and probably common ancestors of all land plants) from New Zealand marks a pioneering effort by international plant scientists to ... > full story -
The Bechstein's Bat, More Mediterranean Than Thought
January 4, 2012 — The Bechstein’s bat or Myotis bechsteinii lives in deciduous forests. It used to be very common in the Holocene era, but today there are only a few dispersed groups, despite the fact that a ... > full story
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