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| NEW STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON FROG MALFORMATIONS |
| The emergence of mutant frogs with extra arms and legs may smack of a low-budget sci-fi script. But it is a reality, and a new study provides more evidence that ultraviolet radiation could be responsible. The findings are reported in three consecutive papers in the July 1 print issue of Environmental Science & Technology, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. |
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| AUSTRALIAN FROG IS FIRST TO MAKE ITS OWN CHEMICAL WEAPONS |
| Researchers have identified an Australian poison frog that makes its own toxin rather than getting it from food sources. It is the first documented case of a vertebrate that generates its own poison alkaloids, complex chemicals that are usually associated with plants, the researchers said. |
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| LIZARDS AND SALAMANDERS MAY USE LUNGS TO HEAR, STUDY SAYS |
| Certain species of salamanders and lizards can actually hear through their lungs, according to a new study at Ohio State University. |
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| 343 MILLION YEARS OF PRIMATE AND CARNIVORE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY AT RISK |
| Washington, D.C. – Scientists have discovered that the greatest concentration of all primate and carnivore evolutionary history exists within those species found only in the 25 biodiversity hotspots. These species – whose combined evolutionary ages total 343 million years – represent genetic lineages that are vital to the future diversity, evolution and survival of these animals according a collaborative study published by the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS) at Conservation International and biologists from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in the Feb. 19 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). |
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| DNA ANALYSIS OF SALAMANDERS TURNS UP NEW SPECIES UNDER ALMOST EVERY LOG, UC BERKELEY ZOOLOGISTS FIND |
| A new species of salamander discovered in an isolated range of hills in southeastern Mexico highlights the agile inventiveness of evolution as well as the many species still waiting to be discovered in out of the way spots and even under our noses. |
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