Cattle losing adaptations to environment, MU researchers find
Researchers pave the way for genetic tests of cattle that can look for the presence of specific adaptations, such as ...
Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science
Why weren’t New World rabbits domesticated?
Archaeologists find the answer in rabbit social behaviorCredit: Nawa Sugiyama/UCR Domesticated rabbits come in all sizes and colors, including tiny ...
To save a species, check its ID
New tool differentiates endangered salt marsh harvest mouse from abundant look-alikeCredit: William Thein It's hard to save what you can't ...
How do wind turbines impact Golden Eagles?
Credit: Dr. Whitfield Results from a study published in Ibis show that how close Golden Eagles will fly to wind ...
Innovative program entertains and teaches children about fish migration
Credit: Written by Merryn Thomas and illustrated by Ethan Kocak. It's important to communicate about hard-to-see and complex environmental topics ...
No horsing around: super-fast Hendra test developed
Credit: The University of Queensland University of Queensland vets are diagnosing the deadly Hendra virus in horses faster than ever, ...
The climate impact of wild pigs greater than a million cars
Credit: The University of Queensland By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs are releasing around 4.9 million metric tonnes ...
Bats in Tel Aviv enjoy the rich variety and abundance of food the city has to offer
Just like humans:Credit: S. Greif. A new Tel Aviv University study found that, like humans, bats living in Tel Aviv ...
uOttawa study first to investigate newly introduced butterfly which could become widespread in Canada
Credit: Stephanie A. Rivest This summer, if you see a butterfly with wings that are blue on top with orange ...
New alpine moth solves a 180-year-old mystery
Credit: Jürg Schmid Butterflies and moths (order Lepidoptera) are one of the most diverse animal groups. To date, scientists have ...
When fawns perceive constant danger from many sources, they almost seem to relax
Researchers use trail cameras to study animals' interaction, behavior in human-dominated landscapesCredit: Asia Murphy/Penn State Burnout. It is a syndrome ...
How spiders distinguish living from non-living using motion-based visual cues
Ability to identify other animals from relative positioning of the joints not unique to vertebratesCredit: Sam Droege, USGS Bee Inventory ...
Fossil rodent teeth add North American twist to Caribbean mammals’ origin story
Credit: Jorge Velez-Juarbe GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Two fossil teeth from a distant relative of North American gophers have scientists rethinking ...
A genome of photosynthetic animals decoded
Genome analysis reveals chloroplast acquisition without gene transfer in photosynthetic sea slugsCredit: Taro Maeda Plants, algae and some bacteria are ...