Scientists get first look at the evolution of early complex animals
WASHINGTON — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial…
Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate
Anthony, M. A., Bender, S. F. & van der Heijden, M. G. A. Enumerating soil biodiversity. Proc. Natl…
Marine protected areas marginally offset anthropogenic declines in tropical reef fish contributions to nature and people
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Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts
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Study finds North American bird populations keep dropping
WASHINGTON (AP) — Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their population…
Federal protections end for the lesser prairie chicken
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A ground-dwelling bird known for elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains…
Eliminating invasive predators | Nature Ecology & Evolution
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California mountain lions are now considered ‘threatened,’ but only in certain regions
Just weeks after a mountain lion wandered into San Francisco, state officials voted to permanently protect populations of…
Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out
NEW YORK — By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into…
The fishing practice of scrapping ocean bottom continues despite protection promises
KYLEAKIN, Scotland — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye,…
Destructive bottom trawling in Scotland despite promises to protect oceans
KYLEAKIN, Scotland (AP) — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of…
Biomechanical limits of hopping in the hindlimbs of giant extinct kangaroos
Specimens All species included in this study were macropodiforms; the bone measurement dataset encompassed all extant families and…