Scalloped hammerhead sharks hold their breath to keep their bodies warm during deep dives into cold water where they hunt prey such as deep sea squids. This discovery, published in Science by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa ...
Plants & Animals
May 11, 2023
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A new group of mitochondrial viruses confined to the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Glomeromycotina may represent an ancestral lineage of mitoviruses.
Plants & Animals
May 11, 2023
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An international research team in search of painted lady butterfly breeding grounds in Africa has published the results of years of fieldwork. In the paper, "The Afrotropical breeding grounds of the Palearctic-African migratory ...
Meteorite impacts can be cataclysmic events in the history of a planet, melting rock, changing atmospheric chemistry, and wreaking general havoc.
Planetary Sciences
Apr 12, 2023
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What defines the habitat—the ecological niche—of a microorganism? It is a combination of environmental factors such as temperature, moisture, and nutrient content. But the exact contribution of each of these factors is ...
Ecology
Apr 3, 2023
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Deep down in the ocean at tectonic plate boundaries, hot fluids rise from hydrothermal vents. The fluids are devoid of oxygen and contain large amounts of metals such as iron, manganese or copper. Some may also transport ...
Ecology
Mar 9, 2023
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Pinus kesiya and its sister species Pinus yunnanensis form savanna and forest communities in tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia (SEA). Their ranges overlap in southern Yunnan and have a wide zone of contact. To date, ...
Evolution
Feb 15, 2023
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A rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimaera has revealed new clues about the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous period, some 300 million years ago.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 17, 2023
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Urban myth has it that a frog placed in cold water that's brought to the boil will not react, dying a horrible death. Clearly this is a fallacy, yet climate change is forcing a similar predicament for mountain frog species ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2022
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Cave paintings from the Lascaux complex in France to Ubirr in Australia have one characteristic in common—they depict hunters and their prey. Very few of our Paleolithic ancestors seemed interested in doing still-life paintings ...
Archaeology
Oct 27, 2022
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