Tag: Biodiversity

Credit: Thomas Ziegler For decades, it has been assumed that the Chinese Softshell Turtles from East Asia all belonged to ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Down syndrome is the most common birth defect, occurring once in ...

Credit: WCS NEW YORK (February 12, 2019) - WCS has announced 13 new grants to nonprofit organizations implementing on-the-ground, science-driven ...

Credit: Paul Selden LAWRENCE -- Usually, soft-bodied species like spiders aren't fossilized in rock like animals with bones and teeth. ...

Credit: Kostadine Luchansky A new to science species of tarantula with a peculiar horn-like protuberance sticking out of its back ...

Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute. PUNTARENAS, COSTA RICA - A three week expedition off the coast of Costa Rica has just ...

Credit: L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Though separated by a world of ocean, and unrelated to each other, two ...

Research on population trends will inform EU biodiversity and agricultural policiesCredit: Martin Warren A major new EU Pilot Project will ...

Credit: Rainer Breitling Spiders are one of the most successful groups of 'invaders' on the planet. Out of over 47,000 ...

The new genus is found exclusively in the recently recognized Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests biomeCredit: I.R. Guesdon A new species ...

Previously, this pathway was thought to be present only in grasses ST. LOUIS, MO, February 11, 2019 - Small RNAs ...

Light pollution affects the skies over most of the world's key wildlife areas, new research shows. The study, by the ...

On 10 February 2019 Prof Dave Richardson from Stellenbosch University in South Africa and a leading scientist in the field ...

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma team from the Geographical Ecology Group has published a new study in ...

Credit: Tom Wieboldt What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about the evolution of plants and fungi? Neither ...

Gorillas in the heart of the forestCredit: Germán Illera A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

Peasant farmers began transforming diets across the Old World 7,000 years ago, study findsCredit: Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by ...

The BBVA Foundation recognize Gretchen Daily and Georgina Mace, two 'visionary' ecologists who have devised indispensable tools to compute 'the ...

Credit: Felix Ossig-Bonanno (2017) The discovery of a new to science species of rare and primitive arthropod from the depths ...

ZSL scientists pioneer new method of monitoring hihi reintroductions by listening in on bird 'conversations'Credit: (c) ZSL Remote recording devices ...