One of the 2.7 billion year-old diamonds used in this work. Credit: Michael Broadley A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic…
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Shark Bay mouse (Pseudomys fieldi). Credit: Source: Australian Wildlife Conservancy Photographer: Wayne Lawler An Australian mammal thought to have been wiped out over 150 years…
Evolutionary Unique: The Natural History and Conservation Importance of Elusive Chinese Mountain Cat
Chinese mountain cat. Credit: Song Dazhao, CFCA Study highlights the evolutionary uniqueness and premier conservation importance of the elusive Chinese mountain cat. We know that…
Some of the birds collected at Chicago’s McCormick Place that are in the Field Museum collections, including an eastern meadowlark (far left) and an indigo…
Likely the first extinction event of the 2000s in Europe, the sad history of the Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) is a powerful example of…
Oculudentavis naga, as depicted in this artist’s reconstruction, was a bizarre lizard that researchers initially struggled to categorize. They are still unsure of its exact…
There are more than 500 cichlid species in Africa’s Lake Malawi. They evolved from a few species that likely entered the lake about 3 million…
Perfect Bush-crow and Swallow habitat in Ethiopia. Credit: Andrew Bladon The White-tailed Swallow, Hirundo megaensis, and Ethiopian Bush-crow, Zavattariornis stresemanni, are living in ‘climatic lifeboats’…
Governments have pushed for the closing of so-called “wet markets” around the world, but this is not an effective policy solution, according to Princeton University…
The peer-reviewed workshop report is the product of a four-day virtual workshop between experts selected by a 12-person Scientific Steering Committee assembled by the Intergovernmental…
Some frog species have teeth while others are toothless. Still others have a combination of true teeth and toothlike structures. The Solomon Island leaf frog,…
Lionfish, like the one seen here in Belize, can be devastating for the local ecosystems they invade. Credit: Luiz Rocha © California Academy of Sciences…
Launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a new UNEP/FAO report says the world must deliver on existing commitments to restore at least 1 billion…
Landing a catch along the Ucayali River in the Loreto department of the Peruvian Amazon. The boy is holding a boquichico, a commonly consumed species.…
Just in time for picnic-table trivia, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences rewrites the origins of domesticated watermelons.…
A large, parasitic orchid bee (Exaerte smaragdina). Credit: USGSBIML Team Largest-ever analysis of bees’ morphological diversity paints complicated picture as to whether complex social behavior…
Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile). Detecting environmental DNA of invasive ant species in soil samples. Researchers have successfully detected the environmental DNA (eDNA)[1] of the Argentine…
Manipulator arm on the HyBIS hybrid remotely operated vehicle collecting crust samples from the Rio Grande Rise. Credit: Bramley Murton Researchers conducted the first large-scale…
Dr. Dylan Gomes led the team that deployed speaker arrays early in the spring to begin playback of whitewater river noise before most birds and…
Study on declining biodiversity in Tibet’s mountainous regions in response to climate change. Normally, mountain forests are among the most diverse habitats in alpine regions.…