Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate
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Howler Monkeys Began Eating Leaves 13 Million Years Ago, Changing Course of Primate History in South America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Key Facts 13.3-million–13.6 million-year-old fossils from an extinct relative of the howler monkey show signs…
Marine protected areas marginally offset anthropogenic declines in tropical reef fish contributions to nature and people
Carson, R. Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962). Hallmann, C. A. et al. More than 75 percent decline over…
Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’
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Weird-Looking Marsupial Found Alive After 6,000 Years of Alleged ‘Extinction’
Field researchers call them “Lazarus taxa,” species once presumed extinct that suddenly appear to have risen from the…
Tiny Teeth Reveal Early Spread of Proto-monkeys in North America
Almost 66 million years ago, an animal that looked like a rat, or maybe a squirrel, died in…
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts
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Scientists Unearth a Scimitar-Crested “Hell Heron” During a Daunting Sahara Desert Expedition
A new “scimitar-crested” spinosaurid, officially named Spinosaurus mirabilis, has been uncovered in the Sahara Desert, marking a major…
Eliminating invasive predators | Nature Ecology & Evolution
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Ancient Kangaroos Were Heavier Than Grizzly Bears But Could Still Hop » Explorersweb
Thousands of years ago, the kangaroos roaming Australia were more than double the size of the modern ones.…
Did Humans Nearly Go Extinct 900,000 Years Ago? A Biologist Explains
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what…
Projected human land-use pressures and natural habitat conversion risk within global terrestrial protected areas
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