Car traffic driving micro-evolution?
It’s hard to think that you can evolve to avoid fatal car crashes, but apparently, you can. Well not you, but other creatures like cliff swallows can. Ecologist Charles Brown at […]
It’s hard to think that you can evolve to avoid fatal car crashes, but apparently, you can. Well not you, but other creatures like cliff swallows can. Ecologist Charles Brown at […]
We’ve got to face facts: We live within a killing machine. According to a piece posted on Grist this week, our skyline kills more birds every year than any other […]
It turns out California is an Eden of biodiversity for spiders. Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History and taxonomist Jason Bond has identified 33 new species in […]
In storied reserves like Kenya’s Amboseli National Park or South Africa’s Kruger National Park, elephant populations have been studied for decades. But reserves Samburu and Buffalo Springs in Kenya are just […]
A warning to biology nerds everywhere: Prepare for all your work ethic today to evaporate. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has put together the Macaulay Library, an exhaustive collection of […]
Zoologists at the San Diego Zoo and the Audubon Nature Institute will be leaving love up to the birds and the bees. The two organizations are coming together on a […]
Spoon-bill sandpiper is a hard animal to spot in the wild. That’s because in its native eastern Russia there are only 100 breeding pairs left. Post-breeding is an even harder […]
Despite their size, giant squid aren’t easily caught on camera. The creatures live in the darkest depths of the ocean and have remained largely elusive to scientists. That was before […]
Sometimes, evolution give you a free pass. There are instances where something your species has spent millennia adapting for a specific purpose is also very well suited for an entirely […]
…comes an impressive DNA catalogue. Researchers are now turning to flesh-eating flies to get a better idea of the numbers and species of mammals in more remote areas. Scientists at Robert […]