Life after death: How insects rise from the dead and transform corpses into skeletons
It's that time of the year when skeletons, skulls and bones have found their way onto cookies, porches and storefront windows.
It's that time of the year when skeletons, skulls and bones have found their way onto cookies, porches and storefront windows.
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2020
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Not every child gets a bark beetle named after them. Then again, not every kid has Michigan State University entomologists Sarah Smith and Anthony Cognato as parents.
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2020
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As species across the world adjust where they live in response to climate change, they will come into competition with other species that could hamper their ability to keep up with the pace of this change, according to new ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2020
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When southern Rocky Mountain forests are viewed from a distance these days, it may not look like much is left. Large swaths of dead, standing Engelmann spruce trees tell the tale of a severe regional spruce beetle epidemic ...
Ecology
Oct 15, 2020
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"I have taken pains to verify this assertion, and have found it true that frogs, toads, and newts are absent from most oceanic islands"—thus states Charles Darwin in his well-known work "On the Origin of Species." For a ...
Ecology
Oct 9, 2020
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For the first time, Senckenberg scientist Mónica Solórzano-Kraemer, together with lead authors David Peris and Kathrin Janssen of the University of Bonn and additional colleagues from Spain and Norway, successfully extracted ...
Archaeology
Sep 29, 2020
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Storms, fires, bark beetles: Many forests around the world are increasingly affected by these and other natural disturbances. It is common practice to eliminate the consequences of these disturbances—in other words, to ...
Environment
Sep 23, 2020
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On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 PM PDT the Creek Fire began in the Big Creek drainage area between Shaver Lake, Big Creek and Huntington Lake, Calif. NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured these images of the fire ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2020
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The forest is struggling to cope with the largest bark beetle plague in 70 years. While the trees are suffering due to the heat and the drought, the pests are proliferating rampantly in the warm weather: A pair of European ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2020
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Organisms need to work together to adapt to climate change, especially in the presence of competitors, suggests a new study published today in eLife.
Evolution
Aug 18, 2020
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