Scientists have named a new species of bone-headed dinosaur (pachycephalosaur) from Alberta, Canada. Acrotholus audeti (Ack-RHO-tho-LUS) was identified from both recently discovered and historically collec ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 07, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

At the current temperatures, all hibernators have probably emerged from their winter hibernation and are enjoying the warm weather. However, this is quite different during the cold season. Many small mammals ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Ever notice you get cold faster when you're wet? That's why whales are so much bigger than elephants, according to SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset in a recent paper published in the journal PLoS One that e ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 19, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

Dramatic climate change was previously proposed to be responsible for the disappearance of turtles 71-million-years ago, because they were considered to be "climate-sensitive" animals. Results of this research, ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 14, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

It's been a tough winter for owls in parts of North America, and the evidence is turning up on roadsides, at bird feeders and at a wildlife rehabilitation center in Minnesota.

Biology - Plants & Animals

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A ban on the international trade of the Tasmanian tiger, the buff-nosed kangaroo rat and the pig-footed bandicoot was lifted Thursday—because the species have been extinct for decades.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Domestic cats in the United States kill up to 3.7 billion birds and as many as 20.7 billion mice, voles and other small mammals each year, biologists estimated on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 29, 2013 3.8 / 5 (19) 228

(Phys.org)—Small mammal populations across Europe were wiped out multiple times during the last Ice Age, due to an inability to deal with rapid climate change, according the research published today in ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 27, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 5 |

It isn't only birds that move south as autumn approaches. Some insects also live their lives on the same principle. A new study of migratory insects has just been published that shows that a considerably higher number of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Blanket bogs, which provide vital habitats for a unique range of plants, birds, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians, are at risk of declining as a result of climate change.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 07, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Some aliens arrived as stowaways. Others were brought in deliberately, for fun or profit. And others were so tiny that nobody noticed them until way too late.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 28, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 3

(Phys.org) -- Camanchaca, or coastal fog, drapes the mountains of coastal north-central Chile, supporting remnants of a Valdivian temperate rainforest. The forest is a legacy of the last glacial period.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 27, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) -- Biological scientist Eric Abelson of Stanford University has been studying the link between survivability of a species over time and brain size relative to body mass, and has found that as a general rule, it ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 18, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 3 |

As green cricket frogs screeched and the sun set, researcher Kate Langwig and a small band of fellow scientists set a trap of black nets to nab bats and inspect them as part of a scientific quest to understand a spreading ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 15, 2012 not rated yet 0

In mammals, most lipids (such as fatty acids and cholesterol) are absorbed into the body via the small intestine. The complexity of the cells and fluids that inhabit this organ make it very difficult to study in a laboratory ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

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