Sitting anchored to the rocky reef 70 feet (21 meters) below the surface of the ocean, hundreds of scalloped hammerhead sharks swam above me in unison, moving as if one. When most people think of sharks, they don't think ...
Ecology
Apr 11, 2022
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Life in the wild can be tough, and sometimes animals don't have the luxury of taking time out when they are sick. That's certainly the reality of life for vervet monkeys living in Southern Africa, even though parasites and ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2022
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Indigenous people across Australia place tremendous cultural and customary value on many species and ecological communities. The very presence of a plant or animal species can trigger an Indigenous person to recall and share ...
Ecology
Jan 25, 2022
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Hippopotamuses are rather vocal animals. Their "wheeze honk" calls can be heard over long distances, leading researchers to suspect the calls play an important role in maintaining social groups. Now, a study in the journal ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2022
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Management of within-group conflict is a key feature of human lives and those of many social animals, with contestants known to adopt various strategies in the immediate aftermath to minimize costs. The study, published today ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2021
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What if, in order to understand the social intelligence of animals, including humans, we had to study the brain at the group level and not only at rather than the individual level? This is a perspective put forward by Julia ...
Other
Oct 21, 2021
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Fossils trapped in amber provide a unique snapshot of the anatomy, biology, and ecology of extinct organisms. The most common fossils found in amber, which is formed from resin exuded from tree bark, are land-dwelling animals, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2021
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The long-distance migrations performed by groups of animals offer some of the most spectacular natural phenomena on our planet.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2021
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The first comprehensive list of the threats to Australia's most endangered plants and animals reveals blunt news about the future for some of the country's favorite species.
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2021
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There are huge differences in species numbers among the major branches of the tree of life. Some groups of organisms have many species, while others have few. For example, animals, plants and fungi each have over 100,000 ...
Evolution
Jul 29, 2021
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