New research led by Monterey Bay Aquarium is helping to unlock the natural history of one of the most studied places on the planet. By tapping into a collection of dried, pressed seaweed—that dates back more than 140 years—researchers ...
Ecology
Jun 16, 2020
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For the first time, a complete time-calibrated phylogeny for a large group of invertebrates is published for an entire continent.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2020
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When some species are heavily hunted, animal mortality increases and they have fewer offspring in the course of their lives.
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world is a crisis of our own making.
Environment
Mar 31, 2020
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In a recent paper in the open-access journal Neotropical Biology and Conservation, a group of Brazilian scientists from the Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil) published ten different defensive behaviours for the False ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2020
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Scientists deployed motion-sensitive camera traps across a 50-square-mile swath of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in southern Sumatra and, over the course of eight years, recorded the haunts and habits of dozens of species, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2020
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Fens and bogs are valuable research environments for paleoecologists due to ancient fossils that have survived in the peatland for thousands of years. A recent study carried out by the paleoecologists of Tallinn University ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2019
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A West Virginia University researcher used science and data to solve the timeless argument of nature versus nurture—at least when it comes to microorganisms.
Ecology
Sep 11, 2019
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For soil microorganisms, how much of their life's work is driven by evolution (nature) versus their current environmental (nurture)?
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2019
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What would happen if the hands of time were turned back to an arbitrary point in our evolutionary history and we restarted the clock? American paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould proposed this famous thought experiment in the ...
Evolution
Jun 6, 2019
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