"We have to value natural land," he said. "The value of a grove of trees needs to be considered in relation to the value of a shopping center." The zoo is coordinating Leap into Action, a regional ...

More favourable conditions for raising young give rise to amphibians having larger offspring but smaller broods. It has been long been known that a trade-off exists between producing many, small ...

Australian ground frogs take the standard weirdness of frog reproduction and development to the next level...and then to the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We studied variation in reproductive traits among 789 red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans) from three sites in west-central Illinois ...

Global warming is altering the reproduction of plants and animals, notably accelerating the date when reproduction and other life processes occur. A new study has discovered that some amphibians are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Reproduction was studied in Ameiva plei from Anguilla and Dog Island, Lesser Antilles. Reproduction was seasonal with reproductive activity ...

In a new study, researchers have investigated how the endocrine-disrupting substance linuron affects reproduction in the West African clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis. The scientists found that linuron ...

Sex: Who needs it? Not unisexual mole salamanders, which reproduce primarily by cloning and sometimes snatch other species' sperm to kickstart their reproductive systems. These all-female cohorts have ...

On the night of the first warm spring rain, local salamanders emerge from the thawed forest ground to migrate. Because of passing cars, however, many of them are killed before reaching their ...