Tag: Biodiversity

By tinkering with some of life's oldest components, a group of astrobiologists hopes to find clues about how life emerged. ...

Credit: Michael O'Brien / SEARRP The rainforests of Southeast Asia are among the fastest declining tropical ecosystems worldwide. Researchers from ...

Credit: Bowling et al, 2020 The larynx is larger, more variable in size, and has undergone faster rates of evolution ...

Credit: Nicola Nelson AMES, Iowa - Scientists searching the most ancient corners of the genome of a reptile native to ...

A review ranging from frogs and wolves to lobsters, bats, and humansCredit: Kaeli Swift Humans are not the only social ...

Credit: IRB Barcelona The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago ...

Credit: Naoto Jimi, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan Earlier this year, a team from Japan's National Institute of Polar ...

Fundamental research in bacterial physiologyCredit: Salim Timo Islam Research by INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Professor Salim Timo ...

Sites in Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea identifiedCredit: Forrest Hogg/WCS BYRON BAY, Australia ...

Long-term ecological site study shows no net insect changesCredit: UGA Scientists have been warning about an "insect apocalypse" in recent ...

Inbreeding can reduce cooperation in banded mongooses according to a recent study by researchersCredit: Dr Hazel Nichols Inbreeding can reduce ...

New group with possible symbiotic life strategyCredit: Anja Spang In a publication in Nature Communications last Friday, NIOZ scientists Nina ...

Credit: Katherine Maltby New research out today highlights the future effects of climate change on important fish stocks for south-west ...

Credit: NOAA OER A new publication on the impacts of deep-seabed mining by 13 prominent deep-sea biologists, led by University ...

International team reveals richest island flora in worldCredit: Joshua Brown/UVM Imagine if there were, say, 600 species of giraffes: some ...

To develop locally relevant strategies that improve food security, nutrition, and conservation, researchers employed a gendered ecosystem services approach in ...

Credit: Dagmar Lackschewitz In October 2014, the suspicion arose that the parasite worm Polydora websteri had found its way to ...

In a 99-million-year-old preserved amber fossil, researchers get a detailed glimpse into how 'Hell Ants' hunted with scythe-like mandibles and ...

Credit: Prabin Bajgain Compared to annual crops, perennial crops provide sustainable environmental benefits such as reduced soil and water erosion, ...

Credit: Greg Asner, Arizona State University Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science Resource fishes--species targeted for human consumption--play a ...