Introducing the amazing Mexican Burrowing Toad 🐸 This rare footage was captured by our own Dr Alexander Wilson and Dr Robert Puschendorf while conducting research in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (Santa Rosa) in Costa Rica Locally it is known as the “Sapo Borracho” which means “Drunken Toad”, it has been described as a 'bag of bones' or perhaps more suitably, as a 'rotund bag of jelly with five short protrusions (4 legs and a head). If inflating your throat to the width of your body isn't int

At first glance, this looks like a tiny soil mystery: one nematode seems motionless while the others keep wiggling around it. The first thought? Someone didn’t make it. We’ve seen that scene before. During our Costa Rica Workshop (2025), a manure sample showed a ruptured nematode, its contents released, with others clearly feeding from different points. But this time, the plot twists. Look closely; all the nematodes are anchored to a single spot. No leakage. No torn bodies. Just a strange little

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