Tiny fly from Los Angeles has a taste for crushed invasive snails
Credit: Kat Halsey As part of their project BioSCAN - devoted to the exploration of the unknown insect diversity in ...
Tag: Biodiversity
Surprising hearing talents in cormorants
Credit: SDU Many aquatic animals like frogs and turtles spend a big part of their lives under water and have ...
Plant disease primarily spreads via roadsides
Credit: Elina Numminen An analysis based on mathematical statistics more precise than those previously carried out uncovered the reason why ...
Climate change may be making migration harder by shortening nightingales’ wings
Credit: Javier de la Puente The Common Nightingale, known for its beautiful song, breeds in Europe and parts of Asia ...
Preservation of testicular cells to save endangered feline species
Testicular cells survive cryopreservation after dissociationCredit: Ex-situ Iberian Lynx Program A research team at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo ...
Bison in northern Yellowstone proving to be too much of a good thing
Credit: Bob Beschta, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Increasing numbers of bison in Yellowstone National Park in recent years have become ...
Untangling the social lives of spiders
Credit: Noa Pinter-Wollman The idea of a complex spider society--in which thousands of spiders live, hunt, and raise their young ...
Water pressure: Ancient aquatic crocs evolved, enlarged to avoid freezing
Study pinpoints minimum survivable size of Jurassic crocodilesCredit: Steve Castillo / Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution / Scott Schrage ...
Sturgeon genome sequenced
Credit: Andreas Hartl Sometimes referred to as the "the Methuselah of freshwater fish", sturgeons and their close relatives are very ...
Animals keep viruses in the sea in balance
Credit: NIOZ A variety of sea animals can take up virus particles while filtering seawater for oxygen and food. Sponges ...
What can be learned from the microbes on a turtle’s shell?
In an effort to help with and advance conservation, scientists have been investigating the microbiome of the protected Krefft's river ...
Discovering the diet of the fossil Theropithecus oswaldi found in Cueva Victoria in Spain
The long journey of the African baboonCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA A study published in Journal of Human Evolution reveals for ...
Renewable energy developments threaten biodiverse areas
Credit: Francisca Hidalgo More than 2000 renewable energy facilities are built in areas of environmental significance and threaten the natural ...
A small forage fish should command greater notice, researchers say
UMass Amherst, more than 20 scientists urge greater effort to gather sand lance dataCredit: UMass Amherst/Keenan Yakola AMHERST, Mass. - ...
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