Monthly Archives: June 2017

In Europe, the distribution ranges of many species were pushed back to the Mediterranean region during glacials, the cold phases of the Pleistocene Ice Age. While the climate in present day temperate Europe deteriorated, species managed to survive in Mediterranean … Continue reading →

Banded newts (the genus Ommatotriton) are stunning critters. They are also distributed in a biologically fascinating, but relatively understudied region: the Near East. All the more reason to work on them, you would say. However, an in depth study on … Continue reading →