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New DNA study provides critical information on conserving rainforest lizards
Aug 2, 2021 | 21:07 pmResearchers have provided an important road map to conserving rough-nosed horned lizards in Sri Lanka.
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How headless hydra feel, react to prodding
Aug 2, 2021 | 21:06 pmResearchers identify redundant neural networks in jellyfish-like, freshwater hydra. The work is a step toward modeling how internal states and external stimuli shape the behavior of an organism with a highly dynamic neural architecture.
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Drug-resistant germ packs punch to US travelers
Aug 2, 2021 | 19:01 pmOne type of the salmonella bacteria is much more likely to cause disease and fend off frontline antibiotics when acquired in Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa rather than domestically in the United States.
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Like matryoshka dolls: One insect species introduced decades ago to a small island had an effect on several insect populations
Aug 2, 2021 | 16:50 pmResearchers thought 30 years ago that they just introduced some Glanville fritillary butterfly larvae on a small island in the Åland islands, Finland. Little did they know that within the butterfly larvae there nested two other insect species and a[…]
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Bird and mammal diversity is declining with biological invasions
Aug 2, 2021 | 15:30 pmThe introduction of invasive species leads to a decline in certain native species: a team of researchers has managed to show that 11% of the global phylogenetic diversity of birds and mammals, in other words their accumulated evolutionary history, is[…]
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Some birds steal hair from living mammals, study finds
Jul 30, 2021 | 15:43 pmA new paper documents an unusual behavior among tufted titmice and their closest bird kin. A bird will land on an unsuspecting mammal and, cautiously and stealthily, pluck out some of its hair.
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Weird, noodle-shaped amphibians known as caecilians found in South Florida canal
Jul 29, 2021 | 17:22 pmCaecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife officers captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal, the first example of an introduced caecilian in the U.S.
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Not-so-blind mice can make strategic and acute visual choices
Jul 29, 2021 | 17:22 pmNew research shows that mice can teach us about decision-making strategies. Mice in the study autonomously trained themselves to make decisions about detailed pictures on a screen, and the results illuminated the underlying, sometimes random nature of the decisions.
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Diversity of life and the 'paradox of sex'
Jul 29, 2021 | 17:21 pmNew research finds that sexual reproduction and multicellularity drive diversity among different species.
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City-living bees benefit most from specific types of urban ‘greening’
Jul 29, 2021 | 13:34 pmConverting vacant urban lots into greenspaces can reduce blight and improve neighborhoods, and new research shows that certain types of such post-industrial reclamation efforts offer the added bonus of benefiting bees.
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