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Forbes Magazine: Emerald Labyrinth Top 10 Biology Book of 2017

A great honor for Emerald Labyrinth to be recognized by Forbes Magazine. See the story here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2017/12/31/the-10-best-biology-books-of-2017/#5b0ae92a7a24

 

Other reviews of the book are outstanding as well:

2018. Spawls, S. Book review. Emerald Labyrinth: A Scientist’s Adventures in the Jungles of the Congo, by Eli Greenbaum. Herpetological Review 49:147–148.

2018. Gibbons, J. Whitfield. Lifting the veil of the mysterious Congo [Review of Emerald Labyrinth]. BioScience 68:44–46. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/1/44/4616604

2017. Nature: “Books in Brief” Review of Emerald Labyrinth. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07526-9

2017. Publishers Weekly Review of Emerald Labyrinth. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5126-0097-1

2017. Booklist STARRED Review of Emerald Labyrinth. https://www.booklistonline.com/Emerald-Labyrinth-A-Scientist-s-Adventures-in-the-Jungles-of-the-Congo-Eli-Greenbaum/pid=9035201

2017. Kirkus Review of Emerald Labyrinth. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/eli-greenbaum/emerald-labyrinth/

Blood’-colored creature — feared extinct for decades — hops onto scientist’s tent

A group of scientists stopped and looked at a large tree that was blocking the trail. They expected the hike up a mountain in central Africa to be difficult, but this was “like an obstacle course,” the expedition’s co-leader Eli Greenbaum told McClatchy News.



UTEP scientists capture first known photographs of tropical bird long thought lost

The yellow-crested helmetshrike is a rare bird species endemic to Africa that had been listed as “lost” by the American Bird Conservancy when it hadn’t been seen in nearly two decades. Until now.



This Giant Toad Mimics a Deadly Venomous Viper With the World's Longest Snake Fangs to Avoid Being Eaten

This is a side-by-side comparison between a Congolese giant toad and a Gaboon viper from an aerial perspective, showing the similarities in appearance. Eli Greenbaum

 

The Itombwe Golden Frog’s Uncertain Future

Towering like a surreal wall of rock into the clouds from the western shores of Central Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, the mountains of the Itombwe Plateau are impressive, beautiful, and unique.
 

Frogs, the Congo and the Future of Humanity

In the midst of civil war, violence, rampant corruption and treacherous terrain, you will find Eli Greenbaum, Ph.D., looking for frogs.


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Meet the Researchers Who Scour the World's Most Dangerous Corners in Search of Biological Riches

Militants, malaria and pirates are just some of the challenges these scientist-explorers face in their quest to map the world’s diversity.

 

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Chameleon Brain Study

In the middle of the jungle, UTEP researchers are pioneering new science...

 

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Here's What Happens When a Chameleon Looks in a Mirror

Chameleon colors aren’t just camouflage, says Eli Greenbaum, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Texas at El Paso—they also change due to temperature shifts or emotions.


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