10,000 species of birds today thanks to incredible adaptive radiation in early dinosaur evolution
Shrinking helped dinosaurs and birds to keep evolving A study that has ‘weighed’ hundreds of dinosaurs suggests that shrinking…
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This genus of bushcricket is a living example of an ultrasonic speaker system
In the rainforests of South America, scientists have discovered a new genus and three new species of insect with the highest ultrasonic…
Ice is nice – new species of sea anemone that lives only on ice
Using a camera-equipped robot to explore beneath the Ross Ice Shelf off Antarctica, scientists and engineers with the Antarctic Geological…
66-million-year-old snapshot of a forest just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs
As far back as the time of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago, forests recovered from fires in the same manner they do today, according to…
Giant pill-millipedes that chirp while mating discovered in Madagascar
An international team of researchers comprised of Thomas Wesener, Museum Koenig, Bonn, Daniel Le, Field Museum, Chicago and Stephanie Loria,…
Extinction and recolonization of coastal megafauna following human arrival in New Zealand
Ancient DNA research has been applied to demonstrate the dynamic response of natural ecosystems to human impacts, with the discovery of…
Parasitic fig wasps penetrate figs with zinc-hardened drill bit tips to lay eggs
Female insects have one goal in life: to find the best place to lay their eggs. For fig wasps, that is the developing fruit of the luscious…
Total mass of deep sea fish in the ocean could be 10,000 million tons
The total stock of fish on the planet had been reckoned until today to be around 2,000 million tonnes. About half of them were thought to be…
Blind species of cavefish discovered in southern Indiana has an anus right behind its head
A new eyeless cavefish is described from Indiana and named after the Indiana Hoosiers. It is the first new cavefish species described from…
Young forests suck up more carbon dioxide than old forests
WOODS HOLE, Mass.— As forests age, their ability to grow decreases, a new study by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists and…