Half a trillion corals: World-first coral count prompts rethink of extinction risks
For the first time, scientists have assessed how many corals there are in the Pacific Ocean—and evaluated their risk of extinction.
For the first time, scientists have assessed how many corals there are in the Pacific Ocean—and evaluated their risk of extinction.
Ecology
Mar 1, 2021
4
1310
Love them or hate them, there's no doubt the European Starling is a wildly successful bird. A new study from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology examines this non-native species from the inside out. What exactly happened at the ...
Ecology
Feb 9, 2021
1
183
The findings of a new study examining the behaviors of alligator and caiman hatchlings have enhanced our understanding of how we can conserve, and increase, the population of endangered crocodilian species.
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2021
0
9
Mammals with big brains tend to be less abundant in local areas than those with smaller brains, new research has shown.
Evolution
Dec 23, 2020
1
227
Several scientific studies have shown how species that have been introduced by humans in new places are different compared to how they are in their native areas. Usually this is interpreted as an adaptation to the new place, ...
Evolution
Dec 18, 2020
0
18
In otherwise energetic deserts at the bottom of the sea, researchers have found oases where microbes can harvest energy. Remarkably, the microbes first have to be buried under starving conditions for 80,000 years. An international ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 10, 2020
1
14
Researchers from the DSI/NRF Center for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found that 100 years after guttural toads were introduced to the islands of Mauritius and Réunion, their overall body ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2020
0
39
Early populations shifted from quasi-egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies to communities governed by a centralized authority in the middle to late Holocene, but how the transition occurred still puzzles anthropologists. ...
Archaeology
Nov 30, 2020
3
466
Federal environment minister Sussan Ley this week announced A$2 million for a national audit of Australia's koalas, as part of an A$18 million package to protect the vulnerable species.
Ecology
Nov 26, 2020
0
8
Vertebrate populations—from birds and fish to antelope—are not, in general, declining. Despite what has previously been thought and said.
Ecology
Nov 18, 2020
0
52