South America

The Arrau Turtle Moms That “talk” to Their Eggs Before They Hatch
The Arrau Turtle Moms That “talk” to Their Eggs Before They Hatchby Joeby Ragpa - Jan. 15, 2023

Turtles aren’t known for their parental instincts, but the arrau is an exception. The discovery is spurring a race to save the chatty species. Known loc...

How a See-through Glass Frog Hides Its Red Blood from Predators
How a See-through Glass Frog Hides Its Red Blood from Predatorsby Joeby Ragpa - Jan. 15, 2023

The unusual adaptation of glass frog to bolster its camouflage could offer clues for preventing deadly blood clots in people. In a study published in t...

The World’s Largest Hatching of Giant South American River Turtles Just Was Documented
The World’s Largest Hatching of Giant South American River Turtles Just Was Documentedby Joeby Ragpa - Jan. 15, 2023

New footage shows hundreds of thousands of baby giant South American river turtles hatching. The turtles began hatching in mid-December and continued into ...

A New Dwarf Boa Species Was Dicovered in Amazon Area
A New Dwarf Boa Species Was Dicovered in Amazon Areaby Joeby Ragpa - Jan. 07, 2023

Scientists discover new species of dwarf boa (Tropidophis cacuangoae) in Ecuadorian Amazon. Two specimens were found in the Colonso Chalupas national re...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Frog: the Rediscovery that Became
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Frog: the Rediscovery that Becameby Joeby Ragpa - Jan. 04, 2023

Leonardo DiCaprio’s frog—The longnose harlequin frog, extinct since 1980s and rediscovered in 2016, has since become a symbol of action against mining Inta...

Jararacussu Viper Venom May Become Fool in fight Against COVID
Jararacussu Viper Venom May Become Fool in fight Against COVIDby Joeby Ragpa - Jan. 03, 2023

The molecule produced by the jararacussu pit viper inhibited the virus's ability to multiply in monkey cells by 75%. "We were able to show this component o...

New Lizard Species Of The Genus Proctoporus Discovered In Peru
New Lizard Species Of The Genus Proctoporus Discovered In Peruby Joeby Ragpa - Jan. 03, 2023

The new lizard species, Proctoporus titans sp. nov., was found in the southern portion of the Otishi National Park in Peru by a team of four biologists. ...

The New Polka-dotted Frog from Ecuador Named after Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane
The New Polka-dotted Frog from Ecuador Named after Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlaneby Joeby Ragpa - Oct. 13, 2022

The new polka-dotted frog (Hyloscirtus sethmacfarlanei) has been found in Ecuador. and named in honor of Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy”. The a...

The First Reproduction of Land Iguanas on Santiago Island after Almost 200 Years
The First Reproduction of Land Iguanas on Santiago Island after Almost 200 Yearsby Joeby Ragpa - Aug. 03, 2022

Charles Darwin was the last person to make a record of Land Iguanas on Santiago Island in 1835. Because of the time that passed and because iguanas are an ...

Two Reptile Species New to Science Were Discovered in Peru
Two Reptile Species New to Science Were Discovered in Peruby Joeby Ragpa - May. 31, 2022

One of the two species new to science discovered around Machu Picchu (Peruvian Andes) was named after Optimus Prime from "Transformers" franchise. Scien...

A New Snake Species Was Discovered from Paraguay
A New Snake Species Was Discovered from Paraguayby Joeby Ragpa - May. 20, 2022

A new snake species, previously unknown to science, was discovered in Paraguay. The reptile described by researchers of the Paraguayan NGO Para La Tierra w...