Stephen Colbert’s trapdoor spider connects comedy, chromosomes and conservation
Researchers assembled the first reference genome for Stephen Colbert’s namesake trapdoor spider and its family, Euctenizidae.Repeated DNA accounts…
Fish and Game kills 2 moose that wandered into Pocatello freeway interchange | Psa
POCATELLO — Idaho Fish and Game officers killed two moose Friday morning after the animals were found lingering…
Scientists Found a Hairy-Legged Sea Spider With a Nightmare Mouth
A photo of a new species of sea spider Tanystylum kiixin. Credit: Cormac Toler-Scott Two newly described Salish…
Afforestation and reforestation support coupled gains in soil life and carbon storage worldwide
Bastin, J. F. et al. The global tree restoration potential. Science 365, 76–79 (2019). Article CAS PubMed Google…
Network analysis highlights socio-demographic patterns of stone tool-using primates
Huber, L. Tool use. In The Rational Animal (ed. Huber, L.) 43–89 (Springer, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60803-2_3. Chapter Google Scholar …
Volunteers help Polish scientists restore rare Mastodonsaurus skeleton
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the…
Interior Department narrows Endangered Species Act protections
PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species…
Disturbance regimes drive widespread plant range disequilibrium in Europe alongside climate change
Plot and environmental data We retrieved 1,903,668 vegetation plots and 40,468,042 observation records from the European Vegetation Archive…
A unified analysis of global riverine eDNA reveals common associations of fish biodiversity with drainage characteristics
Senior, R. A. et al. Global shortfalls in documented actions to conserve biodiversity. Nature 630, 387–391 (2024). Article …
Dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviour relative to the threat posed by different rival groups
Braga Goncalves, I., Morris-Drake, A., Kennedy, P. & Radford, A. N. Fitness consequences of outgroup conflict. eLife 11,…
Biodiversity loss will decrease the future creditworthiness of nations
Following recent innovations in the field of environmentally adjusted sovereign credit risk analysis31,56, a random forest classification model…
Meet the biologists deciphering marine-mammal histories from baleen, whiskers and tusks
Male narwhals fighting over the carcass of a female off Baffin Island, Canada.Credit: Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures via Alamy…