Bioarchaeology provides many insights into the possible influences of socio-economic structure on everyday life and some aspects of human health for which we have no written records. Our interest is in the burial sites of the Sázava Monastery, which are placed in a wide time span from its foundation…

The present study addresses the previously neglected activities of Professor Dr Antonín Frič (1832–1913) from the Museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia (now the National Museum, Prague), realised for the purposes of fisheries development as part of the protective actions in the 1870s through the 1890s to…

Emanuel Bořický (*11 December 1840 Milín, †27 January 1881 Prague) was a prominent Czech petrologist and mineralogist, professor at Charles University in Prague and custodian of the mineralogical collections of the National Museum in Prague. Ha was the first in Bohemia who systematically used a…

The reproductive biology of Taiwanese arboreal frogs of the genus Kurixalus shows a distinct tendency towards arboreality or terrestriality. Four species breed in phytotelmata and feed the tadpoles with unfertilized eggs; one species has terrestrial eggs and its tadpoles develop in lentic water.…