Imagine taking a hike through a forest or a stroll through a zoo and not a sound fills the air, other than the occasional chirp from a cricket. No birds singing, no tigers roaring, no monkeys chattering, and no human voices, ...
Evolution
Jan 17, 2020
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A new study says that the planet's wildlife is increasingly under the boot of humanity.
Ecology
Jan 13, 2020
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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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New fossil data show that our fishy ancestors may have risen to dominance by becoming predators of their ancient jawless cousins.
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 18, 2019
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An Australian research team say they have come up with a "lifespan clock" which provides accurate maximum age estimates for vertebrates, a key variable in the study of both living and extinct animals.
Biotechnology
Dec 12, 2019
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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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New research from a cross-organisational consortium in the Amazon has found indigenous knowledge to be as accurate as scientific transect monitoring.
Ecology
Dec 12, 2019
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Lamprey are blood-sucking vampire-like fish that attach to and eventually kill game fish, making them the bane of many a fisherman's existence. Like something out of a horror film, these parasites use radial rows of sharp ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2019
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The oldest known ortholog of the ion channel that is defective in patients with cystic fibrosis arose approximately 450 million years ago in the sea lamprey, researchers report October 31st in the journal Developmental Cell. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 31, 2019
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More than 5,500 species of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles are bought and sold on the worldwide animal market, a volume that is around 50 percent higher than earlier estimates, a study published in Science said Thursday.
Ecology
Oct 3, 2019
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