A paper published in Nature's Scientific Reports uses ecological niche modelling, biogeography and phenotypic analysis (although perhaps notably,...
Hoplodactylus delcourti, the giant 60cm gecko famous for being known from one specimen found in a French museum with no locality information...
An Indonesian NGO have raised concerns that the official Javan rhino census may be inaccurate, and the population in Ujung Kulon may in fact be...
Himalayan catfight looms as tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land
Discussion about fenced 'safe haven' populations and the dangers of considering them wild: Threatened species recover in fenced safe havens. But...
An interesting article I just came across: Escaped pet parrots threaten New Zealand’s vulnerable native birds – why a ban is the best solution...
Any UK members taking part in the big garden birdwatch this weekend? How did it go, any cool sightings? Link with info for anyone unfamiliar: Big...
They're on our coat of arms but extinct in Tasmania. Rewilding with emus will be good for the island state's ecosystems Conversation piece, based...
A greater white-toothed shrew (Crocodura russula) has been found in Sunderland, a first record for mainland Britain (the species is present on and...
Two white-tailed eagles from the Vincent Wildlife Trust's Isle of White reintroduction project have been found dead in 'suspicious circumstances'...
ZSL's EDGE programme have released a list of the 100 most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered reptiles: Species | EDGE of Existence...
Thought I'd start a new thread on this topic rather than hijacking TLD's cat taxonomy thread further! For the background, read posts #63, #65-67,...
The usual story: a couple of charismatic taxa up (though not by much); many, many more taxa down:...
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/white-giraffes-spotted-in-the-wild/ 2 Leucistic Reticulated giraffes have been filmed by the Hirola...
Snake found on pineapple in shopping in Edinburgh - BBC News I encountered this article this morning about a snake (looks to me to be a juvenile...
World's Rarest Boa Rediscovered After 64 Years Now all we need are living specimens of Boiga saengsomi and Python kyaiktio... :D
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30787-4 A coalescent multi-locus (ML) tree analysis based on individual ML trees...
Recent survey finds only 3 wild individuals: IUCN - Saharan Addax antelope faces imminent extinction
I remember that somebody (i think it was bongorob?) posted a link to a large version of the original site plans for Heart of Africa a while back....
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