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Plants & Animals Oct 29, 2020

Life after death: How insects rise from the dead and transform corpses into skeletons

It's that time of the year when skeletons, skulls and bones have found their way onto cookies, porches and storefront windows.

Economics & Business Oct 26, 2020

Researcher found female candidates are more likely to discuss the economy than males

In a new study published in Politics & Policy, Deserai Crow, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver in the School of Public Affairs, found significant differences in rhetoric between both party affiliation ...

Plants & Animals Oct 22, 2020

Big-hearted corvids

Ravens, crows, magpies and their relatives are known for their exceptional intelligence, which allows them to solve complex problems, use tools or outsmart their conspecifics. One capability, however, that we humans value ...

Ecology Oct 14, 2020

Whitebark pine declines may unravel the tree's mutualism with Clark's Nutcracker

The relationship between the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis), an iconic tree of western mountaintops, and the Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), a brash bird in the crow family, is often used as an example of the ...

Earth Sciences Oct 7, 2020

Hydrology data tool helps users manage water resources, protect infrastructure

River systems are essential resources for everything from drinking water supply to power generation—but these systems are also hydrologically complex, and it is not always clear how water flow data from various monitoring ...

Plants & Animals Sep 25, 2020

Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time

By measuring brain signals, a neuroscience research group at the University of Tübingen has demonstrated for the first time that corvid songbirds possess subjective experiences. Simultaneously recording behavior and brain ...

Plants & Animals Sep 22, 2020

Warming ocean, old-forest loss put a squeeze on an elusive seabird

Squeezed by changing ocean conditions that limit their food options and the long-term loss of old forest needed for nesting, marbled murrelets would benefit most from conservation efforts that take both ocean and forest into ...

Archaeology Sep 21, 2020

Bird beak revealed by laser imaging informs early beak function and development

Confuciusornis was a crow-like fossil bird that lived in the Cretaceous ~120 million years ago. It was one of the first birds to evolve a beak. Early beak evolution remains understudied. Using an imaging technique called ...

Plants & Animals Sep 1, 2020

Loggerhead turtles record a passing hurricane

In early June 2011, NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues placed satellite tags on 26 loggerhead sea turtles in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The tagging was part of ongoing studies of loggerhead movements and behavior. The ...

Plants & Animals Sep 1, 2020

Red fox displaces Arctic fox thanks to littering

Animal species that are at home in the high mountains are finding their habitats reduced and fragmented by roads. In addition, they face competition from scavengers from lower boreal areas that find their way to the mountains.

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