Sep. 24, 2020 — Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable body temperature. Species that rely most on finding a suitably shady ...
Sep. 17, 2020 — Preserving terrestrial biodiversity requires more ambitious land-conservation targets to be established and met. At the same time, 'bending the curve' on biodiversity loss needs more ...
Sep. 17, 2020 — The world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, could be driven to extinction by climate change unless significant measures to intervene are taken ...
Sep. 16, 2020 — Biologists are building a volunteer network of citizen scientists to help monitor the abundance of dragonflies and ...
Sep. 16, 2020 — Researchers have documented what biologists call a 'host shift' of the coconut rhinoceros beetle in Guam. The beetle, first documented as an invasive species in Guam in 2007, has been ...
Sep. 16, 2020 — Rising ocean temperatures cause marine heat waves, which place stress on living coral animals, as well as the photosynthetic algae on which they depend for energy. A new study is showing potential ...
Sep. 15, 2020 — They are some of the most iconic and unique-looking creatures in our oceans. While some may think they look a bit 'odd,' one thing researchers agree on is that little is known about ...
Sep. 14, 2020 — A team of evolutionary biologists and ecologists has a new idea for how scientists should classify algae ...
Sep. 14, 2020 — A potential response of river fish to environmental changes is to colonize new habitats. But what happens when dams and weirs restrict their movement? And are native and alien species similarly ...
Sep. 14, 2020 — Animals in tropical and Mediterranean areas are the most sensitive to climate change and land use pressures, finds a new ...
Sep. 14, 2020 — A new study challenges more than 200 years of coral classification. Researchers say the 'traditional' method does not accurately capture the differences between species or their ...
Sep. 14, 2020 — A research team analyses the genetic diversity of the endangered four-eyed turtle, a species that has fallen victim to the growing wildlife trade in Vietnam. Having identified several distinct ...
Sep. 10, 2020 — The impacts of predator loss and climate change are combining to devastate living reefs that have defined Alaskan kelp forests for centuries, according to new ...
Sep. 10, 2020 — After 10 months of camera surveillance in the Tanzanian rainforest, researchers have concluded that female and male leopards are active at very different times of the day. The discovery contradicts ...
Sep. 10, 2020 — Researchers have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and thousands of plants -- many of them long extinct -- from less than a gram of ...
Sep. 9, 2020 — National parks are safe havens for endangered and threatened species, but an analysis by data scientists finds parks and protected areas can preserve more than ...
Sep. 9, 2020 — Human impact can explain ninety-six percent of all mammal species extinctions of the last hundred thousand years, according to a new ...
Sep. 7, 2020 — Ocean warming is paradoxically driving bottom-dwelling invertebrates -- including sea scallops, blue mussels, surfclams and quahogs that are valuable to the shellfish industry -- into warmer waters ...
Sep. 8, 2020 — Many endangered mammal species are dependent on protected areas, and would likely vanish without them. Despite the success of protected areas, their popularity as a go-to conservation tool has ...
Sep. 3, 2020 — A new study has revealed the size of the legendary giant shark Megalodon, including fins that are as large as an adult ...
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