Oct. 19, 2020 — A new study provides strong evidence that exposure to light pollution alters predator-prey dynamics between mule deer and cougars across the intermountain West, a rapidly growing region where ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Volatile organic compounds identified that can be used for olfactory navigation by homing ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Researchers have taken detailed scans of worker ants to examine the hypothesis that the loss of flight is directly connected to the evolution of ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — The number of sea turtles spotted along the coasts of the UK and Ireland has declined in recent years, researchers ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, and this is often taken as the reason for their great ...
Oct. 16, 2020 — Although the krill catch is regulated, caution is required to avoid endangering the population itself and the species that depend on it, warns a group of krill ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — A team of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) investigated whether and how the immune response changes between pre-migration and migration seasons in ...
Oct. 15, 2020 — Plans to release a virus to reduce numbers of invasive Common Carp in Australia are unlikely to work and should be dropped, researchers ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — A new species of small pterosaur - similar in size to a turkey - has been discovered, which is unlike any other pterosaur seen before due to its long slender toothless ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — A team of researchers have developed a new metric called the stopover-to-passage ratio that can help determine if a majority of birds are flying over a particular site or stopping at the site to ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — Researchers have cultured so-called intestinal organoids from human intestinal tissue, which is a common byproduct when performing bowel surgery. These small 'miniature intestines' can be ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — Plastic gathered from remote corners of the South Pacific Ocean, including nesting areas of New Zealand albatrosses, has confirmed the global threat of plastic pollution to ...
Oct. 14, 2020 — A strain of coronavirus that has devastated the pork industry has the potential to infect humans as well, according to new ...
Oct. 13, 2020 — A research team investigated the causes of severe respiratory disease in peccaries and taxonomically characterized a novel Streptococcus species (Streptococcus catagoni sp. nov.) based on its ...
Oct. 13, 2020 — Despite being championed by a host of celebrity chefs, crayfish 'trapping' is not helping to control invasive American signal crayfish, according to new ...
Oct. 13, 2020 — The identity of wild cloning sea star larvae has been a mystery since they were first documented in the Caribbean. The most commonly collected cloning species was thought to belong to the ...
Oct. 12, 2020 — Pioneering analysis of 200 million-year-old teeth belonging to the earliest mammals suggests they functioned like their cold-blooded counterparts - reptiles, leading less active but much longer ...
Oct. 8, 2020 — Some people carry a mutation in a particular gene that makes the smell of fish less intense. The study, which is the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) of olfactory genes in humans ...
Oct. 8, 2020 — Researchers surveyed for an infection caused by an emerging fungal pathogen that afflicts snakes. The research effort found infected snakes in 19 states and Puerto Rico, demonstrating that the fungus ...
Oct. 8, 2020 — The intertidal mudflats of Barr Al Hikman, a nature reserve at the south-east coast of the Sultanate Oman, are crucial nursery grounds for numerous crab species. In return, crabs are a vital element ...
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