Australia's largest parrot, the palm cockatoo, is justifiably famous as the only non-human animal to craft tools for sound. They create drumsticks to make a rhythmic beat. Sadly, the "Ringo Starr" of the bird world is now ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 11, 2021
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Preserved penguin poop may be the key to connecting past Antarctic Ocean conditions and penguin populations, shedding light on how the birds and the region's ecosystem might fare as the climate changes.
Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2021
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The wolf corpse hanging from a road sign outside a small Croatian town warned that farmers had been pushed too far—attacks on their livestock were driving them to desperation.
Ecology
Jun 24, 2021
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Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2021
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An elusive whale species in the Southern Ocean could be resilient to near-future ecosystem changes, according to a new study by the universities of Exeter and Copenhagen.
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2021
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Fan mussel populations—the biggest bivalve mussel in the Mediterranean—are endangered due to the severe parasitosis caused by the protozoan Haplospridium pinnae since 2016. Now, a study published in the journal Frontiers ...
Ecology
Dec 11, 2020
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Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal.
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2020
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A new interdisciplinary study published in the journal Science Advances reports on 20 newly sequenced ancient genomes from sub-Saharan Africa, including the first genomes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, ...
Archaeology
Jun 12, 2020
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The direction of ocean currents can determine the direction of gene flow in rafting species, but this depends on species traits that allow for rafting propensity. This is according to a City College of New York study focusing ...
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2020
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A survey of the shark skin microbiome provides the first step toward understanding the remarkable resilience of shark wounds to infection.
Ecology
Nov 4, 2019
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