Museum Night 2025 was a blast!
A few weeks ago, the entire team took part in the Museum Night at the Natural History Museum in Bern. The public were actively involved in talking to us about our research. In addition, we developed a game to learn…
News
The latest updates from the Meta-Morphosis Project.
Meta-Morphosis the project! A Documentary Video
Patricia Teixidor interviews the Meta-morphosis team for an in-depth explanation of the project and its relevance to amphibian conservation, including a behind-the-scenes look at the collections and science laboratories at the Natural History Museum of Bern.
Presenting at the World Congress of Herpetology in Kuching, Borneo
The entire Meta-Morphosis team is ready to go to Kuching, Borneo, to present their results at the 10th World Congress of Herpetology!
Anne-Claire awarded Linnean Society’s Bicentenary Medal
Anne-Claire receives the Linnean Society’s Bicentenary Medal in recognition of her outstanding research in the natural sciences.
Day trip to the Ozarks, Arkansas: Exploring the rich diversity of salamanders in the wild
Photos from our field trip in the Ozarks of Arkansas, where in a single day we encountered more than seven species of salamanders.
Lab retreat 2023
From September 20 to 22 2023, the team’s lab retreat took place in Adelboden in Switzerland. The members of the meta-morphosis team were all present (Anne-Claire Fabre, Vivien Louppe, Isabelle Toussaint and Morgane Fournier). Collaborators were also invited to the…
Chasing dragons in a laboratory cave
Do you like caving ? In early September, Anthony Herrel and I went to Moulis (Ariège, France) to visit the CNRS laboratory cave part of the SETE, hosted by our collaborator Olivier Guillaume, without whom this would not have been…
Lower jaw modularity in the African clawed frog and fire salamander
From CT scans of 100 lower jaws from African clawed frogs and fire salamanders, we answer the question of whether the amphibian lower jaw evolves as a single unit or evolves with different modules evolving in different ways.
How do we prepare specimens for scanning?
In order to observe the precise morphology of the head bones, we use a micro-computed tomography (micro-CT scanner). This is a 3D imaging technique using x-rays to see inside an object, slice by slice. For our project, we need to…
Filming salamanders at the Amphibian Foundation
Why salamanders are so special? Were you aware that Salamanders present the most important diversity of developmental strategies among vertebrates? Most salamander species have what we call a biphasic life cycle, meaning that, like the frogs, eggs are laid in…