by Whiting | Apr 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last seen in Hawaii in the 60’s, this beautifully coloured skink is now considered extinct from the Hawaiian Islands. The copper-striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impar) persists in other tropical pacific island groups, with the extinction of the Hawaiian...
by Whiting | Feb 29, 2012 | Lizard ecology, Science news
A brightly coloured, semi-aquatic mountain dwelling lizard has been discovered in Peru, Potamites montanicola. The article describing this new species was published in Zookeys this year, an open access journal. A popular account of this exciting discovery can be found...
by Whiting | Feb 21, 2012 | Science news, Weird and unusual
In recent years we have seen the description of new species of miniature frogs, fishes, salamanders and lizards. Frank Glaw, Jorn Kohler, Ted Townsend and Miguel Vences have just described four new species of Malagasy leaf chameleons (Brookesia) that are small enough...
by Whiting | Jan 30, 2012 | Ceratophora tennenttii, Lab news, Lizard ecology, Lizard Lab adventures, Sexual selection, Sri Lanka lizards
I didn’t have internet access in the field, so this dispatch is actually coming from my living-room in Sydney! I have just returned from a field trip with Ruchira Somaweera to the Knuckles Mountain range, which is to the north of Kandy in central Sri Lanka....
by Whiting | Jan 2, 2012 | Lab news
Hi everyone, Another year has flown by at warp speed. We had the pleasure of hosting both Pau Carazo (University of Valencia) and Qi Yin (Chengdu Institute of Biology) for short-term postdocs. Both made a big impact in their brief time here! We also continued with a...
