Neat profile of my collaborator Tim Cernak - conservation chemist ! Bringing the world of humsn medecine to wildlife. cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...

Caecilians are the legless amphibians, they are rarely seen due to their fossorial habits, so moments like these are very special. This yellow headed caecilian was found in Gamboa Panama behind @amphibianrescue #amphibianresilience

Got to see my first Sylvia’s tree frog last night #cruziohyla what a spectacular frog! ❤️❤️❤️🐸🇵🇦

Biologist Jorge Guerrel found one of our baby Agalychnis lemur from our frog release trials! #amphibianresilience #anfibioresilente

August 14 is golden frog day in Panama - we celebrate with special activities the whole week! Enjoy this amazing golden frog song by our collaborators Jacana Jacana youtu.be/LwxzgzKa40A?...

Our awesome #teamturtle is featured on Sidedoor podcast - tune in! www.si.edu/sidedoor/she...

neat video about the work being done to save Ghana's slippery frogs www.dw.com/en/conservat...

Look at this monster and it’s still a baby!!!

Super rewarding week for me professionally as I was honored to accompany this team of incredible amphibian conservation professionals to release some frogs.

Lovely yellow- flecked glass frog couple that I met last night in the jungle

Positional memory helps axolotls to regrow body parts news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/10/a...

RIP tiger wallah Valmik Thapar - gift article to NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/w...

A chatty animated amphibian starring in videos for Bad Bunny’s recent album has launched the Puerto Rican crested toad — an endangered species native to the island — into newfound fame, following years of quiet, collaborative conservation efforts involving Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo.

Salamanders using an underpass for migration youtu.be/6x-vWF311OA

Origins of whitenose fungus - we need to keep these other strains out of the USA www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mountain yellow legged frogs aided in recovery by translocating disease resistant animals congrats to Knapp et al! www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/12/this...

Happy #Biodiversityday enjoy some cool Panamanian amphibians

Scientists at work 🧪https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-01398-0/index.html

@amphibianrescue intern Nate Weisenbeck working on some artificial tree holes for our upcoming frog release trials.

Axolotls are one of the most widely bred captive amphibians yet they are critically endangered because Mexico City was built on top of their home -lake Xochimilco. These folks have been reintroducing them 👍🐸👏 wapo.st/4d2TZgi gift article

The salamander-eating chytrid fungus is documented in captive collections in Japan. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please join us April 6th from 3-5:30PM for the opening reception of our April Exhibit. RSVP and Learn more at the following link: www.eventbrite.com/e/ecocide-na...

Sound on - American toads leking around a vernal pool 🐸🐸🐸

15 mins with a dog reduces stress in people - here is the data.... :) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I'm honored to share that @amphibianrescue.bsky.social and our partners at the Amphibian Survival alliance have been awarded a grant from @bezosearthfund.org to combat amphibian extinctions in high diversity places in the neotropics. #WorldFrogDay

Four-toed salamander was a bonus found on the road after the rains last week. Cool rare salamander.

"I owned my farm for two years before learning that the sky dance is to be seen over my woods every evening in April and May….The show begins on the first warm evening in April at exactly 6:50 p.m... Do not be late, and sit quietly, lest he fly away in a huff." Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac

Harbingers of spring in the Washington post by Dana Millbank (gift article)

It’s vernal pool time!

These pugnosed tree frogs Smilisca sila are tough to photograph in a natural pose that reveals their sky blue thigh and groin area. Cool creatures from my last Panama visit.

Ever since Norman Myers came up with biodiversity hotspots I’ve found the idea intriguing-but was a little disappointed to find it was largely based on plant distribution. Today you can look at @inaturalist global biodiversity map of 100,000 species 👏👏👏👏👏 www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918...

Cool PhD opportunity based in the UK to work on Appalachian salamanders with awesome colleagues at Bangor and us at NZCBI - open to UK applicants. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Something to brighten your day 😎

Wildlife photo of the week is a Darwin’s frog at London zoo. It is one of more than 30 froglets of the endangered species born at the zoo after a dramatic rescue mission in which their parents were extracted from their fungus-threatened native habitat in Chile. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

After 15 years in this pod it’s time for a refurbishment- we are completely re-designing this space with the goal of turning it into an exhibition pod where we can show visitors our frog conservation work up close! Stay tuned!

Some neat creatures from a walk around Gamboa, Panama the other night.

Camera trap pics winter scenes

This was one of the most impactful moments in my life from 12 years ago. Encountering a Tristan thrush on inaccessible island, one of the remotest islands in the world. They had no fear of humans as they navigated oceanic trash piles washed up on their beach.

Finishing up the year with a red back salamander cake-we study these little guys with our Smithsonian-Mason school of conservation students using elastomer mark- recapture. You can see a yellow elastomer placement in this recaptured guy #SPARCNET

Think carefully before buying a Greenland shark for the holidays. They are, after all, the world’s longest-living vertebrate.

Old news but never shared on here - this year I finally accomplished a bucket list goal & had my 1st image featured in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in London, basically the Oscars of wildlife photography. Absolutely thrilled it's an amphibian shot too - fighting hellbenders! 🐸

Scientists working with @thewcs.bsky.social say that the successful release of rescued cubs may become a viable option for restoring wild Amur tigers to their historical range. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/s...

First sighting of the presumed extinct harlequin toad Atelopus monohernandezii since 1983 from Santanderherps!!! #Atelopussurvivalinitiative www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms08...

So grateful to @hhmi.bsky.social for this @pbs.org 15 min documentary about our Amphibian Rescue project - more than a million views 👏🏼🐸❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=WXK6...

C'mon @fedex, your deliveries are great, but we don't kill snakes... or glorify killing snakes. Leave them be please. www.fedex.com/en-us/about/...

Cute little bold jumping spider

Amazing application of crispr to make a field test for the amphibian chytrid fungus - congrats to Brandon Hoenig et. al. 👏 🧪https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10393-024-01690-x

Here are some captive-bred Panamanian golden frogs in Panama in different developmental stages - put your sunglasses on 😎

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives. portals.iucn.org/library/node...

Here is an awesome spotted turtle that is radio tracked by our turtle team to understand how these pretty little guys are persisting in agricultural landscapes in Virginia. Draining and tiling of fields has eliminated most of the habitat that they rely on.