Illumination drives bats out of caves
No matter the color of the lightCredit: Stefan Greif Artificial light influences the behaviour of many nocturnal animals such as ...
Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science
Oxygen shaped the evolution of the eye
Convergent origins of new mechanisms to supply oxygen to the retina were directly linked to concurrent enhancements in the functional ...
Spying on hippos with drones to help conservation efforts
Credit: Victoria Inman Drones with cameras might be a nuisance to privacy in the suburbs, but in Southern Africa they ...
What can we learn from bonobos and chimpanzees?
A personal account of bonobo and chimpanzee behaviour by a renowned Japanese primatologist explains what and why we should learn ...
Scientists use crabs to validate popular method to identify unknown human brain neurons
Study by MU scientist and team could contribute to future breakthroughs in understanding the brain and neurological diseasesCredit: University of ...
Scientists at the California Academy of Sciences describe 71 new species in 2019
From geckos to goblin spiders, flowering plants, and Mediterranean ants -- spanning five continents and three oceans -- these discoveries ...
Lights on fishing nets save turtles and dolphins
Credit: ProDelphinus Placing lights on fishing nets reduces the chances of sea turtles and dolphins being caught by accident, new ...
Alcohol tolerance may have saved our ancestors from extinction
Credit: Hockings & Dunbar The ability to process alcohol may have saved humanity's ancestors from extinction, a new book suggests. ...
How do world’s smallest sea turtles become stranded in Cape Cod?
Computer simulations help reconstruct ocean conditions behind strandingCredit: Olivia Bourque A computational analysis has surfaced new insights into the wind ...
National Park Service scientists: Does aircraft noise make birds more vocal?
Human-generated noise can have an effect on birds, even when there's no direct threatCredit: National Park Service SAN DIEGO, December ...
For some corals, meals can come with a side of microplastics
Credit: Dennis Wise/University of Washington Tiny microplastic particles are about as common in the ocean today as plastic is in ...
Through the eyes of animals
Credit: Emily Guevara and Cedric van den Berg Humans are now closer to seeing through the eyes of animals, thanks ...
Cats’ faces hard to read, except for ‘cat whisperers,’ research finds
Cats have a reputation for being hard to read, but new research from the University of Guelph has found that ...
When reefs die, parrotfish thrive
Researchers find familiar species pave the way for coral regrowthCredit: Kendall Clements In contrast to most other species, reef-dwelling parrotfish ...
Winning images of British Ecological Society photography competition announced
The winning images of 'Capturing Ecology,' the British Ecological Society's annual photography competition, are announcedCredit: Top left (going clockwise): Overall ...
Oyster deaths: American slipper limpet is innocent
Zoological Museum in Kiel plays a leading role in reconstructing the death of the European oysterCredit: © Jutta Drabek-Hasselmann, Zoological ...
Three University of Missouri faculty members named 2019 AAAS fellows
Credit: Eric Stann COLUMBIA, Mo. - Reproductive biology. Neuroscience. Microscopic organism processes and toxicology. The contributions to these three scientific ...
Biodiversity and wind energy
How stakeholders evaluate the green-green dilemma -- and what they think about possible solutionsCredit: Christian Voigt, Leibniz-IZW The replacement of ...
Did human hunting activities alone drive great auks’ extinction?
Analysis of ancient DNA from an extinct seabird demonstrates that even abundant and widespread species can be vulnerable to intense ...
Using fungi to search for medical drugs
Credit: Jelmer Hoeksma, © Hubrecht Institute An enormous library of products derived from more than ten thousand fungi could help ...
