The USA-Mexico border wall could restrict the movement of jaguars as they shift between countries to find more hospitable places to live due to climate…
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Talk about getting your ducks in a row. There are roughly 50 billion individual birds in the world, a new big data study by UNSW…
An illustration showing Lystrosaurus during the end-Permian mass extinction. Credit: Gina Viglietti Our planet’s worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive…
Pluridens would have reached up to eight meters long. Credit: Andrey Atuchin Scientists have identified the fossil of a giant mosasaur in Morocco that grew…
Life reconstruction of Sahonachelys mailakavava, preying upon tadpoles of the giant Madagascan frog Beelzebufo ampinga using specialized suction feeding. Credit: Artwork by Andrey Atuchin A…
The caecilians found on the southern part of the island are typically yellow with brown splotches. Credit: © Andrew Stanbridge Research adds evidence to century-long…
Mountain Ringlet butterfly. Credit: Melissa Minter, University of York UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help protect some…
This image shows trails left by sponges as they crawl across the seafloor. Credit: AWI OFOBS team, PS101 Sponges: They are considered to be one…
New DNA sequencing technologies and assembly methods let researchers read the entire genomes of 25 species: pale spear-nosed bat, greater horseshoe bat, Egyptian fruit bat,…
Santo Antao (Cabo Verde). Credit: Sandra Nogue Research has shed new light on the impact of humans on Earth’s biodiversity. The findings suggest that the…
Wasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to their roles as predators, pollinators, and more, according to a…
Photo of Kertam, a young male Sumatran rhinoceros from Borneo whose genome was sequenced for this study. Credit: Scuba Zoo A study led by researchers…
The global population could reach 10 billion by 2050; explosive population growth is contributing to a broad array of other challenges for the planet. The…
A new study sequencing the genome of four species of sifakas (Propithecus), a genus of lemurs found in Madagascar’s forests, reveals that these animals’ taste…
The observation that most of the viruses that cause human disease come from other animals has led some researchers to attempt “zoonotic risk prediction” to…
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the extinct mammal community recovered at the fossil site of Els Casots (Spain), dated around 16 million years ago, which is an…
The amphibious Scolopendra alcyona Tsukamoto & Shimano inhabits streamside environments, deep in the forests of the Ryukyu Archipelago. Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Godly proportions for…
Noise Can Be Detrimental to Plant Life – Affects Persist Even Years After the Noise Has Been Removed
Pinyon pine seedling counted during vegetation surveys. Credit: Photo by Sarah Termondt Though noise may change moment by moment for humans, it has a more…
Researchers Pim Bongaerts and Norbert Englebert on a collection dive. Credit: © David Whillas Researchers say that our framework for classifying coral species needs to…
About 66 million years ago, a huge asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatan, plunging the Earth into darkness. The impact transformed tropical rainforests,…