As one of the top predators roaming Antarctica, the sizeable southern elephant seal has its fair selection of the menu. But it turns out they don't just want to eat anything and everything.
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2024
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A group of condors rip into the carcass of a calf at the top of a Colombian mountain which rises 4,200 meters above sea level.
Ecology
Dec 14, 2023
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Researchers, publishing in the International Journal of Green Economics, have investigated the many factors that affect consumer attitudes and buying habits when it comes to organic food products. Mohd Farhan of the Mittal ...
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2023
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A pair of researchers at Kobe College has found that in one species of wasp, cannibalization of sibling larvae is common. In their study, published in PLOS ONE, Yui Imasaki and Tomoji Endo describe the insects and what they ...
More meat eaters would choose a vegetarian burger if it was cheaper than a meat burger. But it takes a large price difference—even if the price was reduced by 30%, only a third of those who normally choose meat burgers ...
Social Sciences
May 16, 2022
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When you imagine an octopus's world, you might well see a curious creature in a complex undersea environment.
Ecology
Mar 24, 2022
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If there's one thing that scavengers do, it's scavenge: feed on whatever is available, whenever it's available.
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2022
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A new study adds another layer to the remarkable evolutionary transition of life from water to land on Earth.
Evolution
Nov 23, 2020
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Meeting one of the great challenges of our time—providing a growing global population with food—requires research with a holistic perspective on food production, people's eating habits, and the population increase. However, ...
Environment
Jan 24, 2020
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A quartet of researchers with PSL Research University, CNRS, has found that a peptide in male fruit fly semen somehow makes its way to the female fruit fly brain after copulation, resulting in improvements in long-term memory. ...
