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…
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…
Rare cheetah mummies found in Saudi caves
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have uncovered the mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia.…
Projected human land-use pressures and natural habitat conversion risk within global terrestrial protected areas
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Deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization in echinoderms uncover ancestral regulatory features of animal genomes
Sebé-Pedrós, A. et al. The dynamic regulatory genome of capsaspora and the origin of animal multicellularity. Cell 165,…
Rare whale species sees more babies, yet extinction fears persist
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than…
Repeated adaptation in sperm-related and neuronal genes in brood parasitic birds
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Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep in precarious environments
Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans…
How a sperm bank might save cheetahs from extinction
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing…