Editor’s Synopsis of CFN 139(1): Four-toed Salamanders

Image Caption: One of the Four-toed Salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum) recently found in a novel, marginal, patchy, anthropogenically-disturbed habitat in New Brunswick. This 2023 discovery (see feature article) expands the known range of the species in the province, the single previously known site being relatively undisturbed and surrounded by extensive forest in Fundy National Park. Photo: [...]

2026-04-01T10:56:05-04:00April 1st, 2026|Canadian Field-Naturalist, Research|

Editor’s Synopsis of CFN 138(4): Dinosaurs!

Cover Image: Julius Csotonyi’s depiction of an adult Spinops sternbergorum defending her offspring from an attack by an albertosaurine tyrannosaur during the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era. See the article by Mallon et al. (pp. 294–299) of a newly discovered fossil, most likely Spinops sternbergorum, a ceratopsid species previously known only from Dinosaur Provincial [...]

2026-01-06T17:17:40-05:00January 6th, 2026|Canadian Field-Naturalist|

Part 1 of CFN Special Issue is Now Online

By William Halliday, Online Journal Manager of CFN The latest issue of The Canadian Field-Naturalist has now been published online, and this one is special! We decided to make a two-part special issue on amphibians and reptiles in Canada, dedicated to Dr. Francis Cook. Dr. Cook was a long-time editor and associate editor of CFN, [...]

2023-07-06T15:03:45-04:00October 17th, 2018|Canadian Field-Naturalist, Publications|