Research into reef fish species diversity will provide conservationists with new information to protect the Great Barrier Reef.
Evolution
Jun 3, 2014
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Flowers are just about the last thing in nature you'd list as fast, but the mountain laurels' filaments are an exception.
Ecology
Mar 1, 2018
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A few years ago, Scott Villa of Emory University had a problem. Then a graduate student at the University of Utah, he was stumped with an issue never addressed in school: How does one film lice having sex?
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2019
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The gigantic, slimy salamanders known as hellbenders, once the apex predators of many freshwater streams, have been in decline for decades, their population constantly shrinking. No one knew why. William Hopkins, professor ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 26, 2023
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A delicate woodland fern discovered in the mountains of France is the love child of two distantly-related groups of plants that haven't interbred in 60 million years, genetic analyses show.
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2015
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(Phys.org) -- Why, after millions of years of evolution, do organisms build structures that seemingly serve no purpose?
Evolution
Aug 10, 2012
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Have you ever wondered why we give birth to live young rather than lay eggs? Scientists have pondered this for a long time and answers have come from an unlikely source: some of Australia's lizards and snakes!
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2014
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Scientists have for the first time explained why larger dogs have shorter lifespans than smaller dogs—selective breeding for size has made large breeds more susceptible to cancer.
Evolution
Apr 11, 2023
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A new study from the British Antarctic Survey shows how lanternfish, small bioluminescent fish, are likely to respond to the warming of the Southern Ocean.
Ecology
Jan 12, 2018
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Imagine you're a member of the Cephalotes goniodontus species, an arboreal ant with a Darth Vader-like head that has inspired humans to call you "turtle ants." You're moving along a branch of the tangled tree canopy in Jalisco, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2017
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