Researchers have described a new species of armored reptile that lived near the time of the first appearance of dinosaurs. With bony plates on its backbone, this archosaur fossil reveals that armor was a boomerang trait in ...
Evolution
Jul 26, 2023
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Senckenberg researcher Dr. Marianna Simões, together with her colleague Dr. Lukáš Sekerka of the National Museum in Prague, discovered a new species from the tortoise-beetle genus. The insect, newly described as Dorynota ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2023
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As the climate changes, living things must adapt to new environmental conditions in one of two ways—either geographically or genetically. While it's relatively simple for scientists to track and record a species' geographic ...
Evolution
Jun 21, 2023
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As Earth's climate continues to warm due to the emission of greenhouse gasses, extreme and anomalous weather events are becoming more common. But predicting and analyzing the effects of what is, by definition, an anomaly ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 5, 2023
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Common, or weedy, seadragons (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) are iconic fish in their native waters of the Great Southern Reef, the southern coastline of Australia.
Ecology
Jun 1, 2023
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A team of ichthyologists from CSIRO National Research Collections Australia–Australian National Fish Collection, Hokkaido University and Sorbonne Université, EPHE has discovered a new species of deepwater shark after identifying ...
Sea ice algae is an essential resource for the survival of many species living in the Arctic.
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2023
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New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship of one-sided or mutual benefit, according to an article titled "Symbiosis between ...
Evolution
Apr 17, 2023
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Scientists have described a new species of bat based on the oldest bat skeletons ever recovered. The study on the extinct bat, which lived in Wyoming about 52 million years ago, supports the idea that bats diversified rapidly ...
Evolution
Apr 12, 2023
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A new look at decades of data from museum collections and surveys of leaf-litter ants in Florida reveals a steady decline in native ants and simultaneous increase in nonnative ants—even in protected natural areas of the ...
Ecology
Apr 7, 2023
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