Critically endangered mountain bongo reintroduced into Kenya’s wild
NANYUKI, Kenya (AP) — The mountain bongo has become the “ghost of the forest,” hard to spot amid…
Birds in Cities Fear Women More Than Men and Scientists Don’t Know Why
A new study shows urban birds react differently to approaching humans in a consistent yet unexplained way. Credit:…
Sumatra orangutan shown crossing canopy bridge for first time
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy…
CAM photosynthesis may have conferred an advantage during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event
Lycopods sporophyll character identification and measurement The characters used to differentiate lycopods include root structure, overall plant morphology,…
300-million-year-old sea creature loses title as world’s oldest octopus
LONDON (AP) — A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after…
Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline
We sampled the cementum layer of 182 teeth excavated from Bury (Supplementary Table 1) and sequenced these to…
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
Carson, R. Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 1962). Hallmann, C. A. et al. More than 75 percent decline over…
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts
Seidl, R. et al. Forest disturbances under climate change. Nat. Clim. Change 7, 395–402 (2017). Article Google Scholar …
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…
researchers identify two sounds straight from the horse’s mouth
Whinnies seem to play a part in horses’ social interactions. Credit: Mumemories/Getty The horse whinny, or neigh, has…
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…