Tag: Biodiversity

Today's humans share genes with ancient oceanic creatures missing headsCredit: Ryan Somma The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, ...

Credit: Ruth Konia Women are largely being excluded from decisions about conservation and natural resources, with potentially detrimental effects on ...

Biodiversity doesn't feature enough in large-scale assessments of ecosystem servicesCredit: Theresa Hickfang Functioning ecosystems provide the basis for security, basic ...

A new large-scale study uncovers recent genetic connectivity between chimpanzee subspecies despite past isolation eventsCredit: © PanAf Researchers from the ...

Credit: Kyle Horton A groundbreaking study published in 2017 found that artificial light from the Tribute in Light installation at ...

Credit: Dr Bethany Clark Female gannets travel further than male gannets to find fish for their chicks in some years ...

U of A biologist leads new study on "functional eradication" to curtail numbers of invasive species based on achievable targets ...

Previously thought of as heavy, slow and sluggish, the 260-million-year-old predator, Anteosaurus, was a ferocious hunter-killerCredit: Alex Bernardini (@SimplexPaleo) Judging ...

Trans-Tasman study calls for greater collaborationCredit: Dr Kerstin Bilgmann (Macquarie & Flinders University) While consumers look out for the Dolphin ...

Credit: The University of Queensland Wild pigs are often maligned as ecosystem destroyers, but a University of Queensland study has ...

Scientists map the degradation of antibiotic resistance gene mecA by common disinfectants to find ways to minimize the spread of ...

Credit: University of Portsmouth New research has found that shrimp like creatures on the South Coast of England have 70 ...

Detection dogs help generate important data for research and conservationCredit: Daniel Peter The lists of Earth's endangered animals and plants ...

Credit: SPOT/Monk Seal Project Scientists have discovered a previously unknown breeding site used by the world's rarest seal species. The ...

Researchers in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and the UK are participating in the initiative; results are published in the journal BioScienceCredit: ...

Credit: (Photo: Fabian Boetzl) Due to modern agriculture, biodiversity across many species groups is in decline. Over the last three ...

Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) together with Russian and German colleagues, continue studying antitumor ...

Credit: University of Exeter Rising temperatures could reduce the efficiency of food chains and threaten the survival of larger animals, ...

Credit: Photos: Julia Kemppinen and Peter C. le Roux. Researchers are in the search for generalisable rules and patterns in ...

Credit: Andreas Dietzel. For the first time, scientists have assessed how many corals there are in the Pacific Ocean--and evaluated ...