Cricket frogs belly flop their way across water
Native to the eastern half of the United States and northeastern Mexico, these critters are so tiny that one can fit on a penny, says Weiss, formerly of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
Mole or marsupial? This subterranean critter with a backward pouch is both
The first people living around central Australia’s iconic great red rock domes (now Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park) certainly knew of the local mole, which features in their cultural lore.
These hornets may be the alcohol-detox champs of the animal world
Now at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Sde Boker campus in Israel, she wants to know whether ethanol changes hornet social interactions or the frequency of tending larvae.
National Geographic’s ‘OceanXplorers’ dives into the ocean’s mysteries
To attach the camera, two members of the research team — shark biologist Melissa Cristina Márquez and Aldo Kane, formerly of the Royal Marines — join Prieto on an inflatable motorboat to search for a pod.