18+ hour, 58+ min ago  (492+ words) image: Ph D Candidate Colin Burke releasing an Australian lungfish. view more Like a naughty pet labrador, the Australian lungfish has little restraint when it comes to food. "We had 360sqm of aquatic plants growing insideenclosures; but, once the fences were…...

22+ hour, 1+ min ago  (655+ words) Sunbirds employ tongue suctioning, which is unique among vertebrates. video: A sunbird sticks its tongue into an artificial flower (top) and uses tongue suctioning to draw out nectar (bottom). view more Credit: David Cuban, Brown University While we often think…...

13+ hour, 32+ min ago  (287+ words) image: A micro-CT of healthy coral (M. cavernosa) view more Studying these tiny features has long been a challenge. Traditional methods are slow and often miss subtle structural changes. Researchers combined micro-CT imaging with deep learning-based image segmentation, using convolutional neural…...

15+ hour, 32+ min ago  (630+ words) Dr. Karen Terio's work has benefited chimpanzees, cheetahs, turtles and other creatures "I got to see somebody who looked sort of like me as a woman out there in the wild doing amazing research," Terio said. A little later, a…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (175+ words) New study shows how marine plankton responds to changing ocean conditions using lipidomics and data science tools "These changes in lipids reveal how plankton communities adapt to their surroundings," says Dr. Liu. "Since plankton, especially phytoplankton, form the base of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (659+ words) Researchers say tens of thousands of the birds have likely contracted or died from the virus More than four out of every five dead black vultures examined by University of Georgia researchers tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, according…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (123+ words) The eclipse only reduced light by about 10. 5% for two short hours, during which the level of sunlight was approximately twice what the trees could practically use," says Novoplansky. Frequent fluctuations in cloud cover at the study location change light quality…...

20+ hour, 7+ min ago  (105+ words) X-ray microcomputed tomography offers a non-invasive way to examine the structure of stony corals in remarkable detail. It allows researchers to visualize everything from the overall skeleton down to the smallest building blocks, without cutting or damaging the coral itself....

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (340+ words) image: K. Lisa Yang Center of Conservation Bioacoustics Swift One recording device. view more A new study led by Cornell Lab of Ornithology researchers at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics shows that monitoring and managing select bird species can…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (231+ words) A rare discovery about dinosaurs sheds light on the evolution of flight Credit: Tel Aviv University " Dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers indicate that these dinosaurs had lost the ability to fly. The research team: "Feather molting seems like a…...