This photo shows a brown tree snake in a tree. Credit: Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological Survey Researchers reporting in Current Biology on January 11, 2021,…
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A Galápagos Toroise. Credit: Alexander Forryan New research has unlocked the mystery of how the Galápagos Islands, a rocky, volcanic outcrop, with only modest rainfall…
Four little brown bats. Credit: Joseph Hoyt of Virginia Tech Since 2006, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome has caused sharp declines in bat populations…
Mollusks of a sample from Southern Israel: in red, those belonging to species of Red Sea origin, in blue, those of Mediterranean origin. Native species…
Researchers found that temperature and precipitation patterns are very important drivers of wild bee communities in our study, more important than the amount of suitable…
The brown tree snake, which is nocturnal, was accidentally introduced to Guam in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Credit: Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological…
Dr. Owen Gilbert, researcher at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and author of the recent paper suggesting…
The banyan tree Ficus macrocarpa produces aerial roots that give it its distinctive look. A new study reveals the genomic changes that allow the tree…
Tree hyrax from Taita Hills, Kenya. Credit: Hanna Rosti A research team from the University of Helsinki has discovered a tree hyrax in the Taita…
Jeff Weinell, a University of Kansas graduate research assistant at the Biodiversity Institute, is lead author of a paper describing Waray Dwarf Burrowing Snake as…
A photo of the newly discovered species (Cryptops speleorex), the largest inhabitant of the Movile cave (Romania) known to date. Credit: Mihai Baciu, GESS LAB,…
A chestnut-crowned babbler. Credit: Niall Stopford Animals can fall into an “ecological trap” by altering their behavior in the “wrong direction” in response to climate…
Carolina Sandhills salamander (Eurycea arenicola) in life from North Carolina. Credit: Todd Pusser Already possessing more salamander species than any other state in the country…
A new study applies machine learning to the fossil record to visualize life’s history, showing the impacts of major evolutionary events. This shows the long-term…
Figs and fig wasps. Credit: WANG Gang Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of banyan…
Acorns of Quercus bambusifolia, an endangered oak found in China and Vietnam. Credit: The Morton Arboretum First complete global extinction risk assessment reveals bleak future…
Leipzig is host to the oldest botanical garden in Germany. On an area of only three hectares, around 6500 of the 350,000 plant species worldwide…
Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles…
Magnapinna squid. Credit: Osterhage et al. (PLOS ONE, 2020) CC BY One of the most remarkable groups of deep-sea squids is the Magnapinnidae, known for…
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals…