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Injection method critical to controlling Crown-of-thorns starfish, finds study
JCU Professor of Marine Biology Morgan Pratchett has published new research in Biology demonstrating the best injection method to kill the problematic Crown-of-thorns starfish and prevent them from spawning.
Plants & Animals
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Songbirds swap colorful plumage genes across species lines among their evolutionary neighbors
People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of "survival of the fittest" is constantly at play. New DNA mutations arise and get passed from parents to offspring. If ...
Evolution
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Roundworms discovered in Great Salt Lake are new to science
Nematodes discovered in the Great Salt Lake belong to at least one species that is new to science, and possibly two. A University of Utah research team has published a new paper characterizing the tiny roundworm. The team ...
Plants & Animals
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Researchers map Africa's snaring crisis, calling for sustainable solutions
The thunder of a rifle echoes across the Savannah. Antelope scatter as birds of all feathers take to the air. A dull thud signals that the marksman's shot was true. The horn from the felled rhino will command more money on ...
Plants & Animals
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'Self-activation' is part of the success strategy of parasitic weeds
Parasitic weeds extract water and nutrients from their host plants. But what makes these parasites so successful? A study led by Prof Susann Wicke from the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity at the University of Münster ...
Plants & Animals
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'In her prime': Rare blooming of palm trees in Rio
An extraordinary botanical spectacle is drawing crowds in Rio de Janeiro: several talipot palm trees, planted more than six decades ago, are blooming for the first—and last—time in their lives.
Ecology
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Indonesia floods were 'extinction level' for rare orangutans
Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects, scientists warned on Friday.
Ecology
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Conservationists connect with chimps in a Ugandan rainforest as they seek a sense of communion
The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go—except up in the trees.
Ecology
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Why do raccoons cross the road? Research shows they don't
A new study led by researchers from Saint Louis University, the Saint Louis Zoo, and partner organizations recently set out to understand how raccoons use space in one of the nation's largest urban parks.
Plants & Animals
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Chinese intertidal shellfish farming: An unexpected fuel station for millions of migrating shorebirds
China's tidal flats feed people and mollusk-eating migrating shorebirds such as red knots, great knots and Eurasian oystercatchers. Under good management, these flats used for aquaculture markedly reduce human disturbance ...
Plants & Animals
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Warblers borrow color-related genes from evolutionary neighbors, study finds
Wood warblers, also called New World warblers, are some of the most colorful birds in North America, with more than a hundred species in the family ranging in color from yellow, orange and red to blue, green and pink. A new ...
Evolution
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Infrared radiation may be one of the most ancient plant signals to pollinating insects
Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared sensors to detect these ...
Evolution
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Microencapsulated B-vitamins help dairy cows produce more milk with fewer emissions
A new international study led by McGill University in collaboration with Jefo Nutrition shows that supplementing dairy cow diets with microencapsulated B-vitamins can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while increasing ...
Ecology
Dec 11, 2025
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Managing conflict between baboons and people: What's worked, and what hasn't
Conflict between humans and baboons can tear communities apart. Shirley C. Strum has studied wild olive baboons in Kenya for more than 50 years. In that time she's come to understand the species intimately. In this article ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2025
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Orca tail dolphins to hunt salmon—and may share the catch
Killer whales or orca (Orcinus orca) have been observed hunting with Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) in the waters off British Columbia, Canada, and sharing fish scraps with them after making a kill, ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2025
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A new species of tiny orange frog discovered in Brazil's cloud forests
Despite the vast numbers of animal species already identified, the natural world is still capable of springing a few surprises. Deep in the cloud forests of the Serra do Quiriri mountain range in the southern Brazilian Atlantic ...
Spillover from protected areas can help ecosystems survive
Spillovers from protected areas such as national parks and wildlife reserves can play a significant role in boosting biodiversity beyond their boundaries with potential benefits to people through ecosystem services such as ...
Ecology
Dec 11, 2025
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Migratory birds' stunning precision in flight revealed by new data loggers
Red-backed shrikes fly thousands of kilometers to reach Africa—and they do so with astonishing precision. Aided by new technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have been able to track the birds' journeys in ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2025
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Racing towards great white sharks in Australia
Sensible people might prefer to flee at torpedo speed from a great white shark, but there's one job in Australia that pays you to race toward the predators.
Ecology
Dec 11, 2025
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Canary Islands may be 'missing link' in global sea urchin killer pandemic
Sea urchins are ecosystem engineers, the marine equivalent of mega-herbivores on land. By grazing and shredding seaweed and seagrass, they control algal growth and promote the survival of slow-growing organisms like corals ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2025
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The American West's most iconic tree is disappearing
Connections between coral reefs boost their health
Female Galápagos seabirds have flings—and males seem OK with it
Sea reptile's tooth shows that mosasaurs could live in freshwater
Storm study shows adaptive selection in southeast lizards
Earth's atmosphere may help support human life on the moon
Polar bears may be adapting to survive warmer climates, says study
Tiny optical modulator could enable giant future quantum computers
Researchers discover new protein-RNA interaction with potential to treat tissue scarring
