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Zoology
Los Andes como Motor de la Diversidad Fisiológica en lo...
Cuando era estudiante de pregrado en Colombia, estaba tratando de decidir qué ha...
Anole Bites Help Us Rediscover Rensch’s Rule
What Rensch (really) found there Rensch’s rule is one of the great macroevolutio...
SICB 2025: Nesting Environments’ Impact on Growth
The local nesting environment that anole eggs experience—temperature, substrate ...
SICB 2025: Impact of Urbanization on Anole Locomotion
Urbanization has introduced man-made substrates like metal rods and plastics int...
SICB 2025: How Green Anoles Adapt to Local Climates
Green anoles (Anolis carolinensis) are everywhere in the southeastern United Sta...
SICB 2025: How Hormones Enhance Anole Communication
Green anoles (Anolis carolinensis) are known for their bold visual displays—vibr...
SICB 2025: Fitness Consequences of Natural Incubation E...
Hurricanes and anoles often go hand in hand. You’ve likely come across reports o...
Red-bellied Woodpeckers used to be called "Chad"
I have a robust collection of bird books and some that are over a century old. I...
Conservation and ecology journal ranks 2023
Quite a bit late this year, but I’ve finally put together the 2023 conservation ...
5000 piggies, 500 piggies, 100 piggies, … and there the...
The Black Summer bushfires of 2019–2020 that razed more than half of the landsca...
Add a voice update to your loops in R
If you’re like me, you use a lot of loops in R. I do not profess to be the most ...
iEcology identifies extent of synthetic polymer habitats
The internet has become an informational telescope to study what happens nearly ...
Jambo from Anne Ju
Jambo Jambo! My name is Anne Ju, and I am the new research assistant based out...
Jambo From Colin
Hey All,My name is Colin Hadley, the new RA for Talek camp. My research backgrou...
Putting the Eagle in Eagle Lakes Park
Years back, I learned about Eagle Lakes Park in Naples from the Great Florida Bi...
How Many Warblers Can You See?
Here in the southern part of North America, it’s hard to come up with a family o...
Ten Bird Videos (a generic but correct title)
I am aware that videos have gotten very much out of fashion. Humans have recentl...
Balearic Bird Break II
Mallorca not only has the largest wetlands in the Balearic Islands (see my last ...
Species Spotlight: The Sulawesi Pitta
I don’t think the Sulawesi Pitta and I will ever become close friends. Sorry to ...
Balearic Butterflies: a surprise encounter
As we all know, butterflies like warmth and sunshine, so I didn’t expect to find...
Holding Ponds and Spray Fields Mean Shorebirds
This post was originally published on September 22, 2015. It is republished in o...
Birding in Karoo National Park
During our time of living in Pretoria in South Africa, we occasionally made trip...
Skies, Stories and Participatory Science: My Adler & Zo...
I hadn’t even walked in the door yet, and walking up to my first day working at ...
Professor Rebecca Kilner awarded ASAB medal 2024
Congratulations to Professor Rebecca Kilner, our Head of Department, winner of t...
Conservation funders urged to embrace evidence-based ap...
New research by 18 global wildlife conservation funders, in collaboration with P...
Study uncovers risks from international trade in orname...
A new study published in the journal Bioscience on the global ornamental plant t...
Potential breakthrough in understanding vertebrate brai...
Research based in the Department of Zoology has potentially advanced the resolut...
The secrets of shrews revealed
The previously hidden diversity of shrews has been revealed in research by recen...
The double life of mammalian DNA replication origins
A study published in the journal Genes and Development by Torsten Krude with co-...
The “biodiversity leak”: how conservation in rich natio...
A paper published today in the journal Science, co-authored by Prof Andrew Balmf...
An American Crocodile: Honduras 2024
Last month we saw this American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in the lower reach...
Commander Hughes, bird artist, and his cousin, the orni...
After my article on the artist Commander Alfred Marcus Hughes appeared, Greg Dav...
Central American Agouti. Honduras 2024
We saw the Central American Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) several times while wa...
Lemming Population Cycles 100 years after Charles Elton
2024, the centenary of the publication of Charles Elton’s classic paper, Periodi...
Montezuma Oropendola. Honduras, November 2024
Gangs of Montezuma Oropendolas are common in the grounds of the Lodge at Pico Bo...
The Multi-Toed Frogs of Jean Rostand. An old problem so...
I was looking at old copies of Animal Life magazine, published in Britain in the...
Honduras: Proboscis Bats hiding in plain sight
This sign board amongst the mangroves lining the Rio Cuero of the Cuero y Salad...
Greater Painted-Snipe. Hong Kong January 2025
AJP spotted these Greater Painted-Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) in Hong Kong l...
THE LAST TIGERS OF HONG KONG by John Saeki
I am late to the party with this book which was published in Hong Kong in 2022. ...
Elliot’s Pheasant: a colour plate from 1962
In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Societ...
Jean Rostand. Frogs, glycerol, cryoprotection and how h...
Jean RostandIn a previous article I described some of the work on frogs and toad...
Top Cryptozoology Deaths of 2023
The year saw the passing of various members of the cryptozoology research, media...
The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2023
The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2023 by Loren Coleman, Director, International Cr...
Richard Ellis, 86, Dies; Had Embraced Cryptozoology
Richard Ellis, who often found himself quoted on cryptozoology reality program...
“Wizard of the West” Tony Shiels Passes Away
On the morning of July 12, 2024, Tony "Doc" Shiels, the so-called "Wizard of the...
Jerry D. Coleman, Author and Cryptozoologist, Dies
Jerry became known as a candid, impartial, and pleasant interviewer, and a serio...
Christopher O’Brien, Author, Mutologist, and Good Guy D...
Chris crashed his car into a stone sign and was fatally wounded.
The Top Fifteen Cryptozoology, Hominology, Fortean, and...
The Top Extraordinary People Deaths of 2024
GREEN PIGS THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS - MUSING ON THE MO...
In Lewis Carroll's Looking-Glass Land, mome raths are small green pigs with lon...
EVALUATING THE ELF CHIMP OF FLORIDA - GLOWING GREEN AND...
Is this what the elf chimp looked like? (created by me using Magic Studio) My ...
RUFFED CAT REVELATIONS - LESSER-KNOWN MEXICAN MYSTERY C...
Reconstruction of the possible appearance in life of Mexico's mysterious ruffed...
DEADLY DEER-PUMAS, LITTLE LIONS, GIANT JAGUARUNDIS, AND...
One long-recognized and three currently-unrecognized Mexican felids – (top left...
MONTEZUMA'S MYSTIFYING WOLF-PUMA – LESSER-KNOWN MEXICAN...
Life-sized reconstruction of the North American scimitar cat Homotherium serum ...
SEEKING THE SCIENCE BEHIND RAZORTOOTH AND FRANKENFISH!
My official Lionsgate Region 1 DVD of Razortooth (© Patricia Harrington/Gravedi...
TONGUE-TIED BY THE TWO-TONGUES!
Is this what Malaya's mystifying two-tongued cryptids looked like? (created by ...
SHEDDING LIGHT UPON THE MYSTERY OF LUMINOUS BIRDS - Par...
Is this what a luminous or glowing owl would look like? THE LUMINOUS OWLA mar...
SHEDDING LIGHT UPON THE MYSTERY OF LUMINOUS BIRDS - Par...
Is this what a luminous or glowing owl would look like? Sceptics notwithstandi...
Winner of the 2023 Journal of Zoology ‘Paper of the Yea...
We are delighted to present the winners of the 2023 Journal of Zoology ‘Paper of...
Species in the Spotlight – Celebrating the Year of the ...
The Chinese New Year falls on January 29th in 2025, making the beginning of the ...
What happens with your telomeres when you’re an extreme...
Mira-Jover, A., Rodríguez-Caro, R.C., Noguera, J.C., Fritz, U., Kehlmaier, C., G...
Zoologylearningpoint channel
Zoologylearningpoint channel link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC48ShFOo6Bcpl...
Molecular Taxonomy
Molecular Taxonomy is the classification of organisms on the basis of the distri...
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
The planet is populated with a vast richness of living organism—so vast that we ...
I’ve been seeing these guys a lot more lately but I don...
I’ve been seeing these guys a lot more lately but I don’t know what they are. Ta...
Saw this guy crawling around last weekend. Do you know ...
Saw this guy crawling around last weekend. Do you know what it’ll metamorphose...
Hey, this little cutie was hanging from a tree, winding...
Hey, this little cutie was hanging from a tree, winding his silk, making a coc...
This little dude wouldn’t stop buzzing right by me whil...
This little dude wouldn’t stop buzzing right by me while I was trimming vine awa...
This is a Steel-blue Cricket Hunter (Chlorion aerarium)...
This is a Steel-blue Cricket Hunter (Chlorion aerarium) doing what it does be...
Found in southwest PAThis looks like the larva of a dyt...
Found in southwest PAThis looks like the larva of a dytiscid beetle, a large fam...
Hi there! I have tried my darndest to ID this guy but t...
Hi there! I have tried my darndest to ID this guy but there are just about 0 ...
Saw it while on vacation in Israel. It had beautiful bl...
Saw it while on vacation in Israel. It had beautiful blue eyes!This looks like a...
Sorry for the picture quality. The spider is camouflage...
Sorry for the picture quality. The spider is camouflaged on the lower brown thin...
Found in Oregon City, OR!Awesome find! This is a Strawb...
Found in Oregon City, OR!Awesome find! This is a Strawberry Crown Moth (Synanthe...
Eastern WA state, I’m not familiar with butterflies fea...
Eastern WA state, I’m not familiar with butterflies featuring eyespots in my are...
Found a few of these in my garage. Hard to knock down...
Found a few of these in my garage. Hard to knock down also. Chicago.This is (or ...
This lil guy is about the size of a thumbnail and was s...
This lil guy is about the size of a thumbnail and was seen in southern arizonaTh...
Found this guy in central PA!This is a male Eastern Dob...
Found this guy in central PA!This is a male Eastern Dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutu...
Would really appreciate some help with this one. I coul...
Would really appreciate some help with this one. I couldn’t find it online, a...
I saw this bug in my garage last Thursday. I thought th...
I saw this bug in my garage last Thursday. I thought that it was a wasp or a mos...
Hey there! I was wondering if you’d be able to ID these...
Hey there! I was wondering if you’d be able to ID these for me. The stick bug...
Is it ironic to see a groundhog in a tree?Very much so,...
Is it ironic to see a groundhog in a tree?Very much so, I never knew that the...
Fly acting like a bee? Chicago.Yes! This looks like Hel...
Fly acting like a bee? Chicago.Yes! This looks like Helophilus, a wasp mimicki...
No info available, Not my photoCan you please tell me ...
No info available, Not my photoCan you please tell me what kind of snake this i...
Iridescent Bark Mantis
Image: Frupus Metallyticus splendidus Iridescent Bark Mantis? Or a cockroach...
Hanging Stomach Jellyfish
Stomotoca atra I'm sure you've heard of beer-bellied men and pot-bellied pigs...