Yearly archives: 2025


A Valentine’s Frog   Recently updated !

Valentine’s Day in 2025 is a special one: we introduce an Anilovely new species from the Tsingy de Bemaraha karst of western Madagascar: Anilany karsticola. The species description is published open access in the 14 February issue of the journal Salamandra, and you can read it here! In 2006, a […]


2024 Expedition to Southeastern Madagascar

The ridge of mountains that runs parallel to Madagascar’s east coast descend in short order into rolling hills, followed by sand dunes, and ultimately meet the Indian Ocean. These rolling hills and sand dunes were once cloaked in low-elevation humid forest and littoral forest. Today those habitats are some of […]


My 2024 in academic review

Unbelievably, I find myself once again at the end of another year. As is tradition here, I wanted to reflect on the achievements and outputs of the year. It has been one of the most interesting and full years of my career so far. Scientific Outputs I had just seven […]