What could make a baby bison white?
Photos of a white bison calf in Yellowstone National Park have generated excitement as well as questions: How does that happen?
Plants & Animals
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News tagged with yellowstone
Yellowstone Lake ice cover unchanged despite warming climate
The length of time that Yellowstone Lake is covered by ice each year has not changed in the past century, despite warming temperatures in the region, according to new research led by University of Wyoming scientists.
Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2024
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Out of the park: New research tallies total carbon impact of tourism at Yellowstone
People depend on natural ecosystems of trees, grasses and shrubs to capture carbon from the atmosphere and pull it underground to slow the decline toward climate-change disaster. Ironically, these same protected spaces also ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2024
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Feds want grizzly bears back in Washington's North Cascades
The National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service published a final series of proposals Thursday calling for reintroducing grizzly bears to the North Cascades.
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2024
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High resolution techniques reveal clues in 3.5 billion-year-old biomass
To learn about the first organisms on our planet, researchers have to analyze the rocks of the early Earth. These can only be found in a few places on the surface of Earth. The Pilbara Craton in Western Australia is one of ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2024
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Apex predators not a quick fix for restoring ecosystems, 20-year study finds
A Colorado State University experiment spanning more than two decades has found that removal of apex predators from an ecosystem can create lasting changes that are not reversed after they return—at least, not for a very ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2024
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Hungry sea otters are helping save California's marshlands from erosion
The return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland, a new study shows.
Ecology
Feb 3, 2024
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From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their world
In the 1980s a single humpback whale in the Gulf of Maine developed the "lobtail feeding method." This unique hunting method of slapping the water's surface appears to drive fish into dense schools, making it easier to consume ...
Evolution
Oct 23, 2023
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Extreme habitats: Microbial life in Old Faithful Geyser
An eruption of Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is a sight to behold. Indeed, millions of tourists flock to the park each year to see it. Hot water and steam are ejected in the air to a height of 100–180 ...
Ecology
Oct 12, 2023
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Okefenokee Natl. Wildlife Refuge to be nominated as World Heritage Site
Georgia's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, the largest intact blackwater swamp in North America and a critical home to thousands of plant and animal species, will be proposed for listing as a World Heritage Site, the ...
Ecology
Sep 25, 2023
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