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May 21, 2025
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May 20, 2025 Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The research not only adds a facet to possible evolutionary strategies, but also lends weight to Darwin's suspicion that this ...
May 19, 2025 A new report identifies the top 12 emerging threats that could accelerate pollinator losses within the next 5-15 years, according to ten of the world's leading ...
May 20, 2025 A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal ...
May 16, 2025 A new study reveals that heat-tolerant symbiotic algae may be essential to saving elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) -- a foundational species in Caribbean reef ecosystems -- from the devastating ...
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May 16, 2025 A study has shown scientific knowledge on the conservation of endangered species is often overlooked when not presented in ...
May 14, 2025 Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. Researchers have ...
May 14, 2025 A new study found that over a quarter of the world's naturalized plant species are threatened in parts of their native range -- raising questions about the role non-native populations may play in ...
May 14, 2025 Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South ...
May 14, 2025 The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the species to reproduce. Now, ...
May 14, 2025 With coral reefs in crisis due to climate change, scientists have engineered a bio-ink that could help promote coral larvae settlement and restore these underwater ecosystems before it's too late. ...
May 9, 2025 Scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo, and reveals a critical ...
May 8, 2025 New report shows drastic decline in endangered primates and calls for conservation ...
May 8, 2025 Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The 'hyperdominance' by ...
May 5, 2025 A new study links grazing halo patterns in coral reefs, as well as those in other patchy habitats, to the spatial patterns of the shelter habitat itself. The researchers found that grazing halos are ...
Earlier Headlines
May 7, 2025 Biologists have create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants, ...
May 7, 2025 Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of ...
May 6, 2025 Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new ...
May 6, 2025 Biologists have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the atoll of Banco Chinchorro, both off the Yucat n Peninsula. The ...
May 5, 2025 The saola, an antelope-like bovine, is one of the world's rarest and most endangered mammals. In fact, it hasn't been observed in over 10 years. Researchers have now mapped the saola's ...
May 2, 2025 The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, plesiosaurians, and thalattosuchians, dominating food webs during the Jurassic and ...
May 1, 2025 A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground. ...
Deciphering the Migratory Behavior and Connectivity of Mediterranean and Atlantic Cory's Shearwaters
Apr. 30, 2025 A good wildlife management plan must include information on their migratory processes if the conservation of a species, particularly an endangered species, is to be improved. In the marine ...
Apr. 30, 2025 The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales -- a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists ...
Apr. 29, 2025 Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound -- that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South American landscapes after the extinction of ...
Apr. 28, 2025 Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the research group ...
Apr. 23, 2025 A new study has revealed that an incentive program increased live releases of endangered species caught as bycatch. However, unexpectedly, the overall positive impact was reduced by some vessels ...
Apr. 22, 2025 Some species that breed over large geographic areas can still be adapted to a fairly narrow range of climates, making them more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought. Also, species ...
Apr. 16, 2025 Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct their dietary ecology and identify characteristics that helped some groups ...
Apr. 9, 2025 New research suggests conservation efforts could more effectively identify and protect bird species at greatest risk from climate change by better understanding the range of specific conditions they ...
Apr. 9, 2025 New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...
Apr. 8, 2025 About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...
Apr. 8, 2025 Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming ...
Apr. 8, 2025 As coral bleaching and deaths become more widespread globally, experts show that over a third of restoration projects fail and might never be scalable enough to have positive effects on reef ...
Apr. 8, 2025 The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Biologists Create a One-Stop Shop for World's Most Charismatic Plants, Ferns
- Triassic Fossil Reveals Nature's Best Jaw for Hunting Fast Fish
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Deciphering the Migratory Behavior and Connectivity of Mediterranean and Atlantic Cory's Shearwaters
- From the Front Garden to the Continent: Why Biodiversity Does Not Increase Evenly from Small to Large
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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- European Bird Declines Linked to Range of Climatic Conditions Experienced
- Coral Reefs Exude Myriad Chemicals, Fueling Dynamic Microbial Recycling of Nutrients
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Life Recovered Rapidly at Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid: A Hydrothermal System May Have Helped
- Declining Insect Biodiversity in the Tropics
- Restoration Programs Won’t Save Coral Reefs
- Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record
Friday, April 4, 2025
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Coral Diseases and Water Quality Play a Key Role for Coral Restoration and Survival Efforts
- If Native Plants Are Going to Survive Climate Change, They Need Our Help to Move -- Here's How to Do It Safely
- The Devastating Human Impact on Biodiversity
Monday, March 24, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Conservation Efforts Are Bringing Species Back from the Brink, Even as Overall Biodiversity Falls
- Conservation Efforts Analysis Reveals Which Actions Are Most Helpful for Endangered Species Status
Monday, March 17, 2025
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- New Species of Killifish from Kenya Already Critically Endangered
- Want to Preserve Biodiversity? Go Big
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Rare Frog Rediscovered After 130 Years
- A 62-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Sheds Light on an Enigmatic Mammal
Monday, March 10, 2025
- Death by Feral Cat: DNA Shows Cats to Be Culprits in Killing of Native Animals
- Growing Consumption of the American Eel May Lead to It Being Critically Endangered Like Its European Counterpart
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Study Raises the Possibility of a Country Without Butterflies
- Adaptability of Some Coral Reef Fish to Rising Temperatures
- Plants Struggled for Millions of Years After the World's Worst Climate Catastrophe
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Insect Populations Are Declining -- And That Is Not a Good Thing
- Caribou Migration Patterns Are Shrinking
- The Pot Is Already Boiling for 2% of the World's Amphibians
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Study Reveals How Rising Temperatures Could Lead to Population Crashes
- Amphibians Bounce-Back from Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction
Monday, March 3, 2025
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Monday, February 24, 2025
- Heat-Stressed Reefs May Benefit from Coral-Dwelling Crabs
- Unexpected Discoveries in Study of Giraffe Gut Flora
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Scientists Call for Efforts to Protect Habitats of Critically Endangered Shark Species
- 10 New Sponge Species Near Hawaii
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Monday, February 17, 2025
- Animals as Architects of Earth: First Global Study Reveals Their Surprising Impact
- Near-Complete Skull Discovery Reveals 'top Apex', Leopard-Sized 'fearsome' Carnivore
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Great Barrier Reef?
- Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- Fishing and Conserving in Great Barrier Reef's Marine Reserves
- Cretaceous Fossil from Antarctica Reveals Earliest Modern Bird
Monday, February 3, 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025
- Tigers in the Neighborhood: How India Makes Room for Both Tigers and People
- Burn Grasslands to Maintain Them: What Is Good for Biodiversity?
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- Landmark Genetic Study: Fresh Shoots of Hope on the Tree of Life
- Protecting the Plains: Conserving Prairie Dogs Will Revitalize North America's Grasslands
Monday, January 27, 2025
- How Tiny Algae Shaped the Evolution of Giant Clams
- Botanic Gardens Must Team Up to Save Wild Plants from Extinction
- Preserving Asian Horseshoe Crab Populations Through Targeted Conservation Strategies
Sunday, January 26, 2025
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Empty Headed? Largest Study of Its Kind Proves 'bird Brain' Is a Misnomer
- Cycle of Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef Now at 'catastrophic' Levels
Thursday, January 16, 2025
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Monday, January 13, 2025
- Polygamy Is (Not) for the Birds
- Ecologists Reveal Key Genetic Insights for the Conservation of Iconic Cockatoo Species
Friday, January 10, 2025
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- Don't Write Off Logged Tropical Forests -- Converting to Oil Palm Plantations Has Even Wider Effects on Ecosystems
- Did Prehistoric Kangaroos Run out of Food?
- The Extreme Teeth of Sabre-Toothed Predators Were 'optimal' For Biting Into Prey
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
- Mediterranean Sharks Continue to Decline Despite Conservation Progress
- Rethinking Population Management in Zoos
- Herbivore or Carnivore? A Toolbox for the Study of Extinct Reptiles
Friday, January 3, 2025
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- Researchers Identify a Mysterious Fossil Seed to Reveal New Chapters in Climate History of Los Angeles
- New Study Highlights the Correlation Between Live Corals and Fishing Yields
- Chart of Life Extended by Nearly 1.5 Billion Years