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Evolution 1 hour ago

Flat faces and difficulty breathing: How pet trends have harmed animal health—and what we can we do about it

Dogs come in all shapes and sizes. We've molded some of them to have large protruding eyes, sloping backs and shortened legs through selective breeding.

Other Apr 20, 2024

Saturday Citations: Irrationality modeled; genetic basis for PTSD; Tasmanian devils still endangered

Hello, stakeholders. (This is the nongendered term of address I've been workshopping because I see "folks" in too many social media posts.) Researchers this week reported on an AI model that attempts to emulate human irrationality ...

Plants & Animals Apr 16, 2024

Nine beavers die from disease in Utah—and it can spread to people, officials say

Beavers are being found dead in Utah, and the disease killing them can spread to humans, officials said.

Ecology Apr 15, 2024

New research highlights effects of gentrification on urban wildlife populations across US cities

Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identifies how gentrified parts of a city have notably more urban wildlife than ungentrified parts of the same city, further limiting marginalized ...

Earth Sciences Apr 2, 2024

South Australian coastal dunes are on the march

Coastal transgressive dunefields are on the march in South Australia—retreating inland from an angry ocean at an alarming rate. Yet while this occurs in plain sight, communities are largely oblivious to long-term coastal ...

Evolution Mar 28, 2024

Ancient isolation's impact on modern ecology: How deep biogeographic divides drive divergent evolutionary paths

A new study led by Michigan State University researcher Peter Williams sheds light on the profound influence of deep geographic isolation on the evolution of mammals. Published in Nature Communications, the research reveals ...

Ecology Mar 27, 2024

New rapid method to predict effects of conservation actions on complex ecosystems

A new way to analyze the effects of conservation actions on complex ecosystems has cut the modeling time from 108 days to six hours, QUT statisticians have found.

Archaeology Mar 27, 2024

Why did modern humans replace the Neanderthals? The key might lie in our social structures

Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, became extinct? It's possible we were just smarter, but there's surprisingly little evidence that's true.

Plants & Animals Mar 26, 2024

UK rabbit owners can recognize pain in their pets, study finds

Rabbits are popular family pets, with around 1.5 million in the UK and it is important that owners recognize when their animal is in pain, and know when to seek help to protect their rabbit's welfare. New research by the ...

Plants & Animals Mar 20, 2024

Decoding the Easter Bunny: Eastern Finnish brown hare represents standard for species' genome

The Hare Research Group at the Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, has published a chromosomally assembled reference genome for the European brown hare. Reference genomes represent ...

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