A pair of researchers, one with Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología, the other with the University of Zurich, has found three possible factors that might explain why some types of snails were able to survive ...
An article in the journal Science Advances, published by scientists from Prague´s Charles University (Center for Theoretical Study and Faculty of Science), shows that the Earth's biodiversity is regulated on the scale of ...
Evolution
Nov 2, 2022
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Often we simply do not know enough about a species to know how it is doing. On the recognized red list from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), thousands of plants and animals are listed as "data deficient."
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2022
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An international team of astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a large asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth, creating a small chance far in the future of a catastrophic collision.
Planetary Sciences
Nov 1, 2022
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Australia holds an unenviable conservation status: it's the fourth-worst country in the world for species extinctions and is in the top three for critically endangered animals.
Ecology
Oct 28, 2022
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A team of researchers, one with the University of Cambridge, the other three with the University of Oxford, has used whole-body 3D imaging technology to learn more about the evolutionary history of birds. Their paper is published ...
In fewer than 250 years, the ravages of colonisation have eroded the evolutionary splendour forged in this continent's relative isolation. Australia has suffered a horrific demise of arguably the world's most remarkable mammal ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2022
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Life on Earth is undergoing a period of mass extinction—the sixth in history, and the first caused by humans. As species disappear at an alarming rate, we have learned that we understand only a fraction of Earth's variety ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 17, 2022
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Since its passage in 1973, the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been the strongest law to prevent species extinctions in the United States, and has served as a model of conservation policy to other nations.
Plants & Animals
Oct 12, 2022
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An international team of researchers has found that turtles not only have relatively large inner ears, but unexpectedly large ear labyrinth morphology. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group ...
