July 26, 2011
William Duellman, curator emeritus of herpetology, and herpetology curator Linda Trueb were invited to be plenary speakers at the IX Congreso Latinoamerican de Herpetologia in Curitiba, Brazil, 17...
May 19, 2011
Herpetology graduate student Cameron Siler is this year's recipient of the Kennedy Award by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. The award is for the best student paper published (...
January 13, 2011
A University of Kansas herpetologist is among a group of 16 select scientists honored with a prestigious fellowship that will help them share biodiversity research with other scientists and the...
December 15, 2010
The exciting scientific discovery was fried and served with tomato and lettuce on the side.
At least that’s how Biodiversity Institute graduate student Jesse Grismer first heard of a species of...
November 16, 2010
Biodiversity Institute herpetologist David Blackburn recently submitted the 20,000th frog photograph to AmphibiaWeb, which now has images for over half of the extant amphibian species.
November 2, 2010
KU Biodiversity Institute scientists recently announced the results of an extensive study of the genetics of the tree frogs in the Philippines. Their surprising results suggest that the Asian Tree...
September 20, 2010
Rafe M. Brown, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and curator-in-charge of herpetology at the Biodiversity Institute was featured in this week's edition of The Oread. Brown spoke...
August 12, 2010
What do the highly celebrated Bornean lungless frogs and the rare Philippine flat-headed frogs have in common? The answer, scientists revealed this week, is tens of million years of...
August 4, 2010
A significant new collection of photos has been added to AmphibiaWeb by the KU Biodiversity Institute's Herpetology scentists. Of the 559 photos contributed, 328 species were not previously...
August 3, 2010
Through loss or modification of habitats, infectious disease and climate change, declines and extinction of amphibians are happening all around the world. Unlike other regions of the earth, there are...
