Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2024
Giant fishes in the Mekong River at risk of extinction
One of the world's most diverse rivers is under threat.
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Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2024
Eight new deep-sea species of marine sponges discovered
Although marine sponges are widespread in the oceans, their biodiversity and distribution is still poorly known. Even though the Mediterranean Sea is the most explored sea on Earth, a study by Julio A. Díaz and colleagues, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 4, 2024
One of the best fossil eyes on the planet
About 11 to 16 million years ago, in the middle of the Miocene period, more than 100 caddisflies met their end in a lake.
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2024
New technology for conducting deep-sea research on fragile organisms
A University of Rhode Island professor of Ocean Engineering and Oceanography, along with a multidisciplinary research team from multiple institutions, successfully demonstrated new technologies that can obtain preserved tissue ...
Archaeology
Jan 17, 2024
Valley of lost cities found in the Amazon. Technological advances in archaeology are just the beginning
A valley of lost cities has been discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon. When you hear of such a discovery you might think of archaeologists with chisels and brushes or explorers in pith helmets stumbling across sites deep in ...
Ecology
Jan 15, 2024
Fossil holdfasts show kelp far predate animals we see in kelp forests today
The unique underwater kelp forests that line the Pacific Coast support a varied ecosystem that was thought to have evolved along with the kelp over the past 14 million years.
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2023
Snapping shrimp create rowdy reef in Kimberley Marine Park
Underwater reefs are generally thought of as tranquil places—however some truly unruly residents make one such area off the coast of northwestern Australia anything but quiet.
Evolution
Nov 20, 2023
Study reveals new clues about how whales and dolphins came to use echolocation
A study published in Diversity provides new insight into how toothed whales and dolphins came to navigate the underwater world using sound waves.
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2023
Like the phoenix, Australia's giant birds of prey rise again from limestone caves
Australia's only vulture, and a fearsome extinct eagle, are among the earliest recorded birds of prey from the Pleistocene period more than 50,000 years ago—and now Flinders University researchers are bringing them to life ...
Ecology
Nov 6, 2023
Fossil study shows frogs were Florida's first-known vertebrates from the Caribbean
Deep in the forests of Haiti lives the blue-eyed La Hotte glanded frog (Eleutherodactylus glandulifer), which once went 20 years without being observed by scientists. It belongs to a diverse genus from the Caribbean that ...
