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Plants & Animals Jun 2, 2025

Decades of searching and a chance discovery: Why finding Leadbeater's possum in NSW is such big news

Until now, Victorians believed their state was the sole home for Leadbeater's possum, their critically endangered state faunal emblem. This tiny marsupial is clinging to life in a few pockets of mountain ash and snow gum ...

Ecology May 27, 2025

How does digestion affect molecular analysis of owl pellets?

Scientists are using isotopes to answer a surprising variety of questions about the world, according to University of Cincinnati Professor Brooke Crowley.

Plants & Animals May 23, 2025

Monitoring select bird species benefits other species within same regions, study shows

A new study led by Cornell Lab of Ornithology researchers at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics shows that monitoring and managing select bird species can provide benefits for other species within specific ...

Plants & Animals May 15, 2025

How whisker-generated sounds are encoded in the auditory cortex of mice

Nestled in dark burrows, with a limited sense of vision, mice brush their whiskers against their environment to navigate and to detect objects around them. This behavior, termed whisking, has been extensively studied in the ...

Ecology May 5, 2025

Democratic senators press Trump administration on how it will protect endangered species

Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species and whether industry had a hand in drafting ...

Plants & Animals May 5, 2025

Harriers evolved owl-like hearing to locate hidden prey in tall grass

Owls, well adapted to hearing the exact location of prey, have something in common with an unrelated group of raptors—harriers.

Paleontology & Fossils Apr 29, 2025

Giant croc-like carnivore fossils found in the Caribbean

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South American landscapes after the extinction of dinosaurs until about 11 million years ...

Veterinary medicine Apr 18, 2025

Q&A: How scientists and farmers are working to adapt to avian flu

The avian flu virus continues to affect poultry producers and dairy farms in 2025. In North Carolina alone, the virus has resulted in the loss of millions of birds on poultry farms. Meanwhile, less than a year after avian ...

Ecology Apr 17, 2025

Wildlife cameras provide an unfiltered view of the natural world

All sorts of creatures make their home in the wooded areas of the Grafton campus, including deer, beavers, coyotes, flying squirrels, and the occasional bobcat with her kittens. Although most of these animals rarely cross ...

Ecology Apr 17, 2025

Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals

The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to human activity in ecologically sensitive environments.

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