One of world s rarest toads bred in captivity for first time in Manchester theguardian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theguardian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mummies at NC museum tell tale of people s hopes and dreams from 2,000 years ago Josh Shaffer, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Mar. 4 RALEIGH More than 2,000 years ago, the Egyptians laid an upper-class woman named Tasheriankh inside her wooden coffin, launching her into the afterlife loaded with ancient bling.
A golden mask fits snugly over her face, and a papier-mâché cartonnage covers her chest like a bib all of it decorated with Anubis, the jackal-headed god of the underworld.
And under this funeral costume, Tasheriankh s slim form still persists, wrapped in linen bandages, inches away from Raleigh s prying eyes.
Beautiful harlequin frogs bred outside Panama for the 1st time cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Toad breeding success is world first
One of the world’s rarest toads has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time outside its country of origin by scientists at Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester .
The team recreated the exact conditions the critically endangered Variable Harlequin Toad - that lives in Panama in Central America- enjoy in the wild to achieve the success.
The breeding –the first outside Panama - is the culmination of 3 years of painstaking work since the 6 precious toad specimens – also known as
Atelopus varius - arrived at the Museum in 2018 from the Central American country.