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Dr Mark D. Scherz Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. I work mostly on the reptiles and amphibians of Madagascar. Also a photographer and occasional poet. Sometimes I...

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For those who missed it: I got a little money to study some tiny animal genomes.

Published: September 5, 2024 22:41

markscherz:shoresoftheshadowlands:markscherz:markscherz:Forgive me for vagueblring, but I have...

i love trying to identify frogs, and ive made progress, for example i can usually tell if a frog is in the families of ranidae (obviously) hylidae and bufonidae, as those are the ones in my area. but i find it quite hard after outside of those families. i feel like just sort of memorizing what families have which attributes is a bad way of going about it, so do you have any tips to narrow down types of frogs, or what i could look into and research about it? i feel like you may have answered this before but i couldn’t find it in your FAQ

Published: September 4, 2024 15:31

Vibes and location my friend, vibes and location. There isn't really a recent-enough key to...

This is probably a gray tree frog, Dryophytes versicolor. It is indeed probably native to that…

Published: September 1, 2024 20:00

lost-in-the-shelves:calware:calware:i implore you all to watch this video that my mom took and sent...

Say hello to Platypelis saikamavo, a new Malagasy species of microhylid frog with a bright yellow…

Published: August 30, 2024 07:33

Say hello to Platypelis saikamavo, a new Malagasy species of microhylid frog with a bright yellow...