Detecting wildlife illness and death with new early alert system
Network of wildlife rehabilitation organizations helps track emerging threatsCredit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis From domoic acid poisoning in seabirds to canine ...
Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science
DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy brings history to life
Credit: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. A team of geneticists and archaeologists from ...
Stopping illegal trade of Aussie lizards
Credit: Photo supplied by Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia. Australian reptiles face serious conservation threats from illegal ...
Restless nights: Shelter housed dogs need days to adapt to new surroundings
Nocturnal activity of dogs as an indicator of adaptabilityCredit: Janneke van der Laan Every year, thousands of dogs end up ...
HKU ecologists develop a novel forensic tool for detecting laundering of critically endangered cockatoos
Credit: Photo courtesy: Astrid Andersson Ecologists from the Conservation Forensics Laboratory of the Research Division for Ecology and Biodiversity at ...
The giant panda’s mystery revealed
The evolution of the temporomandibular joint and premolar teeth enabled adaptation to bamboo dietCredit: Pekka Vallittu Although the giant panda ...
Red Dead Redemption 2 teaches players about wildlife
Credit: Matthew Silk Players of the popular game Red Dead Redemption 2 learn how to identify real American wildlife, new ...
‘Smart collar’ could prevent tapeworms in dogs
Credit: Yang S-J et al., 2021, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Dogs infected with echinococcosis play a major ...
Researchers overcome winking, napping pigs to prove brain test works
Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - If you've ever been to an eye doctor, there's a ...
Zoo amphibians were on display while humans were locked away
Credit: Jack Boultwood from WWT While the UK was in lockdown, certain species of captive amphibians became more visible, a ...
Arctic seabirds are less heat tolerant, more vulnerable to climate change
Arctic species poorly adapted for coping with rising temperatures as the Arctic continues to warmCredit: Douglas Noblet The Arctic is ...
An ‘instruction’ to the crocodylian skull
Scientists from St Petersburg University described for the first time all structures in the animal's braincase, having studied more than ...
New species of pseudo-horses living 37 million years ago
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country describe two palaeotheriidae mammals that lived in the subtropical landscape of AlavaCredit: ...
Light pollution has complex effects on animal vision
Credit: Jolyon Troscianko Changes in the colour and intensity of light pollution over the past few decades result in complex ...