Preserving Cuttlefish and a Valuable Fishing Industry
Once upon a time, in a sea far far away, called Adriatic Sea, there were many cuttlefish. These delicate creatures spent their short life…
Category: Earth Systems
These articles summarize studies that are all about how the planet Earth works!
Winter’s Cold Can’t Stop Me, Baby: Migrating Birds Don’t Duet
In “Ain’t no Mountain High Enough,” Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sing “If you ever need a helping hand,…
How to Find Large Animals by Tracking Dung Beetles
Big animals make lots of dung. And where there’s dung, there’s dung beetles. Researchers counted fossilized dung beetles to figure out…
Who’s the Living Fossil? The genus Crocodylus is Younger Than We Think!
What comes to mind when you think of crocodiles? You might think of ancient reptiles, or “living fossils,” that have been…
Hitting the jackpot — a new vertebrate family endemic to West Africa
Biological classification arranges taxa according to their degree of relationship; several species may be grouped in a genus, several…
Environment-related morphological changes can confuse scientists
For many years, morphology-based classification has served us so well, and still forms a basis of what we are viewing the biological world…
The never before revealed history of the Mediterranean pipefish Syngnathus abaster: secrets found in its maternal inherited DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA studies shows the occurrence of three well-defined groups of pipefish populations – which independently evolved in a…
Tropics are main source of global mammal diversity
Ever since the nineteenth century scientists have recognised that some regions contain more species than others, and that the tropics are…
DNA Barcoding unveils a “ray of sunshine” in products sold to consumers
“Ray” or “Skate” is the common name under which a number of different species of rays (cousins to sharks) fished from the Northeast…
Lost world discovered in Australia
A James Cook University-National Geographic expedition to Cape Melville in north-east Australia has found three vertebrate species new to…