The arrival 36 years ago of a strange bird to a remote island in the Galapagos archipelago has provided direct genetic evidence of a novel way in which new species arise.
Plants & Animals
Nov 23, 2017
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University of Delaware professor Patrick Gaffney and alumnus Keith Bayha, a research associate with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, have determined that a common sea nettle jellyfish is actually two ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2017
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Two birds that look the same, but have songs so different they can't recognize each other, should be considered distinct species, suggests new University of British Columbia (UBC) research.
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2017
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Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientists identified a new species of snake in Europe. Based on more than 1,600 snakes, the researchers were able to show that the barred grass snake, whose range includes ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2017
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Researchers recently discovered what was thought to be a distinct species of butterfly is actually the female of a species known to science for more than a century.
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2017
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New research reveals that a species of giant elephant that lived 1.5 million to 100,000 years ago - ranging across Eurasia before it went extinct - is more closely related to today's African forest elephant than the forest ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2017
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A Portland State University researcher discovered that a rabbit known for centuries to exist in South America is different enough from its cousins to be its own unique species.
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2017
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It's not every day someone gets to say, "I've discovered a new species."
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2017
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At what point on the journey along the branches of the evolutionary tree does a population become its own, unique species? And is a species still distinct, if it mates with a different, but closely related species? Evolutionary ...
Evolution
Feb 17, 2017
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The ghosts of Ice Age mammals can teach valuable, real-world lessons about what happens to an ecosystem when its most distinct species go extinct, according to a Yale University study.
Ecology
Jan 10, 2017
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