Jaw shapes of 90 shark species show evolution driven by habitat

An international research team led by Faviel A. López-Romero from the Department of Paleontology at the University of Vienna investigated how the jaw shape of sharks has changed over the course of evolution. They conclude ...

The true impact of the Black Summer fires on frogs

The first extensive survey of amphibian communities since the 2019–20 Australian Black Summer bushfires has revealed the true impact of severe fire on frogs in eastern NSW.

Evolution of the largest of the large dinosaurs

Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus—were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal even comes close. Now, a new Adelphi University study ...

Single-celled alga found to harbor seven genomes

An international team of oceanographers, parasitologists and biologists has found that the single-celled alga Cryptomonas gyropyrenoidosa harbors seven genomes in its one cell. In their study, reported in the journal Current ...

Analyzing the fat of killer whales reveals what they eat

Scientists are studying the diets of the ocean's top predators as they change in response to their environments. This is because how much and what they eat can affect how ecosystems function.

Researchers assemble pathogen 'tree of life'

A new online tool—the first of its kind for plant pathogens—will help researchers across the globe identify, detect and monitor species of Phytophthora, which have been responsible for plant diseases ranging from the ...

Scientists discover giant insect genome

The largest genome of any insect, seven times the size of the human genome, was recently discovered in a grasshopper. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers from the German Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity ...

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