Study: Humanity's footprint is squashing world's wildlife
A new study says that the planet's wildlife is increasingly under the boot of humanity.
Ecology
Jan 13, 2020
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News tagged with terrestrial vertebrates
Fossil expands ancient fish family tree
A second ancient lungfish has been discovered in Africa, adding another piece to the jigsaw of evolving aquatic life forms more than 400 million years ago.
Archaeology
Dec 19, 2019
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Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous
Some 250 million years ago, simultaneous mass extinctions of marine and terrestrial life occurred in an event known as the End-Permian. Or so scientists believed.
Archaeology
Dec 12, 2019
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The Paleozoic diet: Why animals eat what they eat
In what is likely the first study to look at how dietary preferences evolved across the animal kingdom, UA researchers looked at more than a million species, going back 800 million years. The team reports several unexpected ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2019
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On the land, one-quarter of vertebrates die because of humans
Humans have a "disproportionately huge effect" on the other species of vertebrates that share Earth's surface with us, causing more than 25 percent of the deaths among an array of species all over the globe, according to ...
Ecology
Feb 11, 2019
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Biosecurity strategy needed for China's Belt and Road Initiative, researchers say
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched five years ago, includes more than 120 countries, linked by six proposed land-based Economic Corridors between core cities and key ports along traditional international transport ...
Ecology
Jan 24, 2019
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Luminescent lizards
Chameleons are known to communicate with conspecifics by altering their surface coloration. Munich researchers have now found that the bony tubercles on the heads of many species fluoresce under UV light and form impressive ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2018
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Vision, not limbs, led fish onto land 385 million years ago
A provocative new Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna, Scripps and Pitzer colleges study suggests it was the power of the eyes and not the limbs that first led our ancient aquatic ancestors to make the momentous ...
Archaeology
Mar 7, 2017
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New fossil discovery suggests sea life bounced back after the 'Great Dying' faster than thought
(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has found a trove of marine fossils at a North American site that offers evidence of life bouncing back faster than thought after the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's ...
B10K—Toward decoding all bird genomes
The Avian Phylogenomics Consortium formally announces the launch of the Bird 10,000 genomes (B10K) project, an initiative to generate representative draft genome sequences from all extant bird species within the next five ...
Biotechnology
Jun 4, 2015
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