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What's New?

• 09/03/2010 -
As a precaution against potential power outages due to hurricane Earl, the EOL website will be switching to a read-only mode as of Friday, September 3, at 5pm Eastern Standard Time.
During this period, user logins will not be available, curatorial actions will be disabled and no content harvesting will take place. We anticipate making these functions available on Saturday morning if possible. Thank you for your patience.
• 08/31/2010 -
Congratulations to the Winners of our recent image contest "Architects"

Homework by balharsh

and
Leaf-cutter bee 1129 by Malcolm NQ


Visit the EOL Images Group on Flickr for more great images!
• 08/26/2010 -
Please welcome our latest content partner, Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems
See pages with their content here: EOL pages with content contributed by the ChEss LifeDesk
• 08/26/2010 -
Who's eating my fruit? If you're in Africa, our newest content partner may be able to help.
The Afrotropical Fruitfly Project now provides images and taxon descriptions to EOL. Check out the True Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) of the Afrotropical Region site for more information including distribution maps and data on specimens kept in museums and institutions worldwide.
• 08/25/2010 -
New podcast featuring Foothill yellow-legged frogs
The foothill yellow-legged frog population has been wiped out from more than half of its historic range in California. Many biologists see this tiny amphibian as a canary in the coalmine – an early indication of an ecosystem gone wrong. Learn more by listening to this episode of One Species at a Time.
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