The armoured mist frog (Litoria lorica) was last seen in 1991 and was thought to have be wiped out by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. But Professor Ross Alford from James Cook University has told reporters that the frog has been found in rainforests to the north and west of Cairns:
“It turns out that these frogs

Bigfoot found - for real?
If this is true, it’s earth-shattering stuff.
Bigfoot in a freezer?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND
DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a
PRESS CONFERENCE
to be held on
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm
Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306
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Brown tree snakes destroying more than just Guam’s birds
A brown tree snake
In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, the snakes caused the extinction of nearly every native

Some people are apparently welcoming climate change. Grape growers in Austria (note: that’s a little country in Europe, not a huge mass of land keeping the Indian and Pacific oceans separate) have found the warmer conditions to be quite beneficial.

A striped mammal has been photographed by a camera trap set in a remote forest. Is this the sole surviving thylacine? Unfortunately not, as this Edge of Existence blog post shows.

From the Beeb: Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark.
The report on the BBC website says “The scientists will use the transgenic pigs to study human disease. Because the pig’s genetic material is green, it is easy to spot”. I don’t see how the genetic material can be

A study published in the British Medical Journal has sought to answer the age-old question of “where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?”.

I’ve just has a quick look at the RSS feed for Improbable Research. Here are the highlights for me:
Individually marked ants
Silver loining
Sweet dreams are made of cheese
Bugs in the system