Climate change alters cast of winter birds
Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have…
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Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have…
The first comprehensive map of hummingbirds’ 22-million-year-old family tree — reconstructed based on careful analysis of 284 of…
In an effort to understand the molecular basis of adaptation in vertebrates, researchers sequenced the genomes and transcriptomes of five…
Some 66 million years ago, a 10-km diameter chunk of rock hit the Yukatan peninsula near the site of the small town of Chicxulub with the…
Paleontologists have described three new small squirrel-like species that place a poorly understood Mesozoic group of animals firmly in the…
By analysing the genome of a terrestrial alga, a research group including researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kazusa DNA Research…
New deep sea mushroom-shaped organisms discovered Organisms’ discovery spurs identification of 2 new species Scientists discovered two…
Study finds marine protected areas inadequate for protecting fish and ocean ecology A new study reports that an expansion of marine…
Alternate mechanism of species formation picks up support, thanks to a South American ant A newly-discovered species of ant supports a…
Solving an evolutionary puzzle New Bedford Harbor pollution prompts PCB-resistance in Atlantic killifish For four decades, waste from nearby…