Saving frogs in the Amazon

Amphibians landed the first time about 400 million years ago and found a rich and not so demanding habitat to live in, so they rapidly reached big body sizes and the top of the food chain, remaining enthroned on it for about 100 millions years. At the end of the Permian new land invaders - the crocodiles "prototypes" - began to compete with Amphibians both for food and place to live. This phenomenon led to the miniaturisation of Amphibians and their spreading to colder regions, where crocodiles...

02-07-2008 Gallery on italian wild orchids and massive frogs breeding added

14-04-2008 Gallery on Ants war in rainforest added

28-03-2008 NEW gallery on Amphibian conservation in the Amazon. Updated Cave life gallery

03-03-2008 Gallery on spider-frog mutualism in Peruvian rainforest added

10-12-2007 Gallery on spiders world added

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The spider and the frog

Frogs have difficult lives in South American rainforests. Many of them are...

Welcome to Isopoda.net, website of Italian biologist and science photographer Francesco Tomasinelli. My favourite subjects are neglected animals, like insects, arachnids, reptiles, amphibians and others from all over the world, but I work on general nature topics and landscapes too.
Many of the pictures you see here appeared on various magazines, books and museum exhibits in Europe and abroad. Part of my archive is marketed by my pictures agents in Italy, Britain and United States.

Sedotti dalle orchidee

Hanno fiori fragili e bellissimi. Ma sono anche piante...