Growing fruits on desert lands? Inside China’s decades-long fight against desertification
“Only people who are extremely resilient can do this kind of work,” Zhao said. “Every spring, we face…
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur
Bell, P. R. Standardized terminology and potential taxonomic utility for hadrosaurid skin impressions: a case study for Saurolophus…
Body condition among Svalbard Polar bears Ursus maritimus during a period of rapid loss of sea ice
Parmesan, C. & Yohe, G. A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature 421,…
A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On—but the Species Remains at Risk
After nearly two decades, the baby whale came back—as a mother, with a baby of its own. Julie…
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…
Southern hemisphere ceratosaurs evolved feeding mechanics paralleling those of Northern hemisphere tyrannosaurids
Carrano, M. T. & Sampson, S. D. The phylogeny of ceratosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda). J. Syst. Paleontol. 6, 183–236…
Mummified cave cheetahs inform rewilding actions in Saudi Arabia
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Projected human land-use pressures and natural habitat conversion risk within global terrestrial protected areas
Protected Planet Report 2020 (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, 2021). Pringle, R. M. Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity.…
Ecological processes shaping Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity change
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Echidna population count underway in Queensland amid urbanisation and climate change fears
They may be one of Australia’s most recognisable animals, but much about the elusive echidna remains a mystery…
scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single…
‘Native Cat’ Thought To Have Vanished Seen for the First Time in 80 Years
An endangered species of marsupial known as the “northern quoll” or the “North Australian native cat” has been spotted in a wildlife…