Three new caecilians in the Ichthyophis genus were recently discovered in north-east Indoa. Photo courtesy of The Hindi Newspaper. In October, a team of researchers led by Associate Professor S.D. Biju from Delhi University, discovered three new...

Photographs courtesy Marvalee Wake, University of California, Berkeley, via Proceedings of the Royal Society B A second, lungless caecilian species has recently been discovered in Guyana. This new species, Caecilita iwokramae, is very different to the...

The Kihansi spray toad used to live in the spray region of the Kihansi waterfall, in Tanzania, and relied heavily on the spray from the waterfall to maintain a constant temperature and humidity in its environment. But due to the construction of a dam...

Rabb's fringe-limbed tree frog. Photo: Brad Wilson. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has just released its 2009 Red List, and it includes over 17,000 species that are currently threatened by extinctin. The Red List is a...

Last week, I was thrilled to be working with Dr. Roberto Ibanez from the Smithsonian Institute and Heidi Ross and Edgardo Griffith, from the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center, to administer a three-day husbandry essentials workshop in El Valle de...