Erasmus Darwin Barlow Conservation Expeditons
Two years ago, for the first time in its 180-year history, the Zoological Society of London launched the Erasmus Darwin Barlow Conservation Expeditions. The programme’s aim…
Sir David Attenborough appeals for the Amphibia
On Thursday last week Sir David Attenborough hosted an event at ZSL promoting amphibian conservation; ‘Amphibians in a Climate of Change’ aimed to raise…
X-Frogs
Marvel Comics brought you X-Men in 1963; spandex-uniformed human genetic anomalies or “mutants” with super powers hinted at by their names, e.g. Iceman, Beast,…
EDGE Amphibian 505 – the Fijian ground frog
The EDGE Programme seeks to prioritise the conservation of around 10% of the world’s amphibian species – otherwise known as the 799 EDGE Amphibians!…
Conservation of Caribbean amphibians
EDGE Amphibians coordinator Helen Meredith recently attended a workshop on the conservation of Caribbean amphibians, and wrote this report about her experiences: The Holy…
Axolotls on the EDGE!
Here is the first installment of resident blogger Darren Naish’s musings on EDGE Amphibians. Darren writes a regular Tetrapod Zoology blog, and introduced himself…
EDGE species is only known lungless frog!
The EDGE team are well aware of how the Plethodintid salamanders of Mexico evolved to have no lungs, breathing entirely through their skin and…
Missing in Action!
A group of young scientists recently discovered that a species of frog which had not been seen for 14 years is still surviving in…
Life in Cold Blood
Life in Cold Blood, the sixth and final series of the ground-breaking Life nature documentaries written and presented by Sir David Attenborough, is currently…
Nick Baker blogs for EDGE!
After a life time of waiting for the opportunity it finally came last year. I got to meet one of the most bizarre and…
Meet our new resident frog-blogger
My name’s Darren Naish: my technical training is in vertebrate palaeontology (I actually specialise on the study of Lower Cretaceous predatory dinosaurs), but I’m…