The basket-web spider in its natural form with its unique lobster pot web and silk, which has now been revealed as uniquely robust. Credit: Professor…
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A new study of the Great Barrier Reef shows populations of its small, medium and large corals have all declined in the past three decades.…
Reptile in trade. Credit: Alice Hughes Keeping reptiles is fashionable, but what are the consequences for wild reptiles? More reptiles are kept as pets than…
Restricted to the Atlantic Forests of Brazil and at risk of extinction, this species require effective protected areas to prevent the loss and degradation of…
A Cobalt Blue Tarantula (Hapolpelma lividum), with brilliant cobalt blue hair-like setae on its legs. Credit: Bastian Rast Researchers from Yale-NUS College and Carnegie Mellon…
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Rhodes Drive, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa. Researchers have discovered why the tropics and a handful of other areas across the globe…
The tuatara is the last surviving member of the reptilian order Rhynchocephalia, which once flourished globally in the age of the dinosaurs. Today, they live…
Described by the ‘father of zoogeography’ and co-author of the theories of evolution and natural selection, the species hasn’t been reexamined since 1866. An over…
This artwork illustrates the main findings of the article, but does not intend to accurately represent its results. Credit: IIASA Plant and animal species across…
A new species of freshwater Crustacea has been discovered during an expedition of the desert Lut, known as the hottest place on Earth. Credit: M.…
International scientists and Ngātiwai, a Māori tribe, teamed up to sequence the genome of a rare reptile, the tuatara, uncovering some unique aspects of the…
Overall Winner: “Sick” by David Costantini. Viruses are a significant ecological concern because they are responsiblefor a variety of pathological effects in wildlife. This picture…
Photograph taken from ALVIN, a manned deep-ocean research submersible, taking sediment cores at the ocean floor of the Dorado Outcrop in 2014. Credit: Geoff Wheat,…
Bullock/Baltimore Oriole hybrid. Credit: Bryan Calk, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Baltimore and Bullock’s Orioles Are Not Merging A half-century of controversy over two…
Drought in the Amazon affects larger trees more severely as they are more likely to die from hydraulic failure. Credit: David Bartholomew Small trees that…
A paper published July 7, 2020, in the open access journal PLOS Biology outlines a roadmap for creating, for the first time, an agreed list…
Manganese oxide nodules generated by the bacteria discovered by the Caltech team. The nodules are generally about 0.1 to 0.5 millimeters in diameter. Images are…
In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers focused on what can happen to ocean ecosystems when fishing pressure increases…
Dr. Martin Breed, Flinders University. Credit: Flinders University Billions of people using the Earth’s resources and changing or destroying ecosystems are not only creating the…
Galaxy M51 is a spiral galaxy, about 30 million light years away, that is in the process of merging with a smaller galaxy seen to…