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A nearly 200-year-old cemetery comes alive after dark, where the dead share space with frogs, toads, and the scientists listening to themCitizen scientists are lending their ears to a crucial cause, listening for frog calls in Cambridge's historic Mount Auburn Cemetery. This ...- In 1979, Japan released 30 mongooses onto Amami Oshima to kill venomous snakes, and it took 45 years to fix what happened nextJapan's ambitious plan to control venomous snakes on Amami Ōshima with Indian mongooses in 1979 backfired spectacularly. The introduced pre...
- Leonardo DiCaprio now has a frog species named after him. Here’s whyScientists in Ecuador have named a newly discovered frog species, Phyllonastes dicaprioi, after Hollywood actor and environmental activist ...
- Newly discovered frog species named after renowned plant geneticist
- Can’t wait for all frogs to croak before actingA frog-in-the-well attitude towards amphibian conservation will not do.
- New species of 'see-through' frog discovered
- Indian scientists discover four new species of smallest known frogs from the Western GhatsUnlike other frogs in the genus that are predominantly stream dwelling, the new miniature frogs were found under damp forest leaf litter or...
- Dancing tadpoles found in Western Ghats
- Tiny frog species discovered in Manipal and Mangaluru
- This frog species lived under the wrong name for nearly 200 yearsNearly 200-years-ago, Paris-based naturalist Tschudi described a new species of frog from the Malabar region in India that secreted foul-sm...
- New frog species discovered in GoaA group of city scientists has discovered a new leaping frog species on the edge of the Netravali wildlife sanctuary in Goa.
- New life, new hope for Manas National ParkWestern Assam’s Manas National Park which also covers a part of Bhutan has excited conservationists.
- 55 species of herpetofauna found in Manas landscapeThe survey was part of a trans-boundary conservation initiative funded and led by the park authorities of Manas National Park, India and Ro...
- New frog species shatter gender stereotypesMale parenting may be recent in humankind.But male members taking care of their brood is not new to the animal kingdom.
- Delhi University professor leads discovery of 14 new 'dancing frogs'A team of scientists led by Delhi University professor Sathyabhama Das Biju aka 'frogman of India' has discovered 14 new species of dancing...
- Forest department steps up patrolling to monitor frog poachingGiven that frog -poaching activities are on the rise during the monsoons, forest officials have begun night patrolling besides issuing advi...
- ‘Frog song’ may help understand climate changeFor the first time frog song is being monitored using automated sound recorders by Indian scientists to track the impact of climate change ...
- MoEF now sets eyes on marine biodiversityEnvironment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that marine biodiversity had been consistently ignored in India's conservation program...
- But 'extinct' frogs haven't croakedDelighted conservationists have announced they had found two species of African frog (Omaniundu reed & Mount Nimba reed) and a cave-dwellin...
- Weirdest creatures face extinctionThe pygmy hippopotamus, the bumblebee bat and the rare slender loris, weirdest creatures, face extinction.
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