Tag: Biodiversity

Credit: Chris Birmingham, CC BY 2.0 The flightless kakapo of New Zealand is in trouble. The world's heaviest parrot--representing one ...

Terminological confusion between speciesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Oxytocin and arginine vasopressin are two hormones in the endocrine system that can ...

Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For more than a decade, ecologists have been warning of a ...

Credit: UoC / Hartmut Arndt Ecologists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology have for the first time demonstrated ...

Collaborative study shows how currents of the Western Indian Ocean create both distinct and related populations for conservationCredit: University of ...

Plantations are home to significantly less beetles than old-growth forests.Credit: J. C. Lobo / Adobe Stock In light of declining ...

Credit: Photo by Torsten Krause (LUCSUS) The current loss of biological diversity is unprecedented and species extinctions exceed the estimated ...

New ancient DNA-based study on Madagascar crocodile suggests that modern crocodiles likely originated in AfricaCredit: M. Ellison/©AMNH A study led ...

Credit: Scuba Zoo A study led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm shows that the last remaining ...

Credit: Credit: David Mencin via Imaggeo MUNICH -- Rewilding--a hands-off approach to restoring and protecting biodiversity--is increasingly employed across the ...

Biologists at the University of Bonn use state-of-the-art non-destructive methods to study an octopus from the deep seaCredit: © Alexander ...

Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring "Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society ...

Credit: Simpson et al. 2021 (please hyperlink to paper) A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative ...

Protective endosymbiont dynamics in pea aphids are sharpened by selectionCredit: Drexel University/Linyao Peng Evolution is unfolding in real time within ...