2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (292+ words) image: A spider-tailed horned viper. view more A spider-tailed horned viper. The elusive spider-tailed horned viper is a relatively recently-discovered species, and until now, scientists only knew what the outside of this snake’s unusual tail looked like. But in a…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (162+ words) If you want to drum up support for environmental action, putting climate change front and center may not always be the best strategy. A new study by Aya Takagi and Ryosuke Nakadai of YOKOHAMA National University suggests that support for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (525+ words) video: FAU researchers strategically stacked infrared cameras from the forest floor to the canopy in the Congo Basin, revealing 47 mammal taxa, unexpected behaviors and wildlife patterns missed by conventional surveys. view more The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) tropical forests…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (929+ words) New study in Nature reveals how bats evolved genes that drive longevity, immunity, and cancer resistance image: Elise Lauterbur is an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Vermont and co-lead author of the study. view more Credit:…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (169+ words) A. A community can be represented as a set of species in which each occupies a different niche. B. A species can be represented as a set of metapopulations with different niches. C. A population consists of multiple individuals with different individualized niches…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (51+ words) Narwhal tusk (IMAGE) EurekAlert! The narwhal’s tusk is the left canine tooth, which grows through the jaw and lip and can reach more than two meters in length. Peter Gammelby Aarhus University [email protected] Cell: 2114 2956 Marianne Liebi Chalmers University of Technology…...

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (115+ words) EurekAlert! image: A male harvestman of the genus Quindina guarding eggs on his disk-shaped mud-nest in Colombia. view more Credit: John A. Uribe Rosas The information helped create a family tree of the evolution of care in the group Gonyleptoidea, which…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (305+ words) A new study by the German Primate Center reveals that female Guinea baboons are less dependent on their primary males for access to meat than anticipated image: A male Guinea baboon (Papio papio) fiercely feasts on his prey: a young…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (27+ words) EurekAlert! Credit: Dr Shawan Chowdhury Nature Ecology & Evolution Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (466+ words) Artificial light at night (ALAN) can cause plants to open their buds and sprout leaves earlier in the spring. Lin Meng and colleagues used data from the Sustainable Development Goals Science Satellite 1 (SDGSAT-1)—in orbit since late 2021—to measure ALAN…...