Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India
During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near […]
Biochemistry
Modern mass extinction in an Ecuadorean cloud forest found to be a mirage
One of the most notorious mass extinction events in modern times occurred on a hilltop in coastal Ecuador in the
Does fermented black garlic extract help treat prostate cancer?
A team at the University of Cordoba and IMIBIC tests the protective effect of a fermented black garlic extract against
Environmental DNA and epidemics in wood frogs
Tracy Rittenhouse, associate professor of natural resources and the environment in UConn’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR),
Artificial nests boost penguin breeding success, but there’s no one-size-fits-all design
Artificial nests can boost the breeding success of endangered African penguins, but different designs are more effective at different colonies
Better ocean connectivity boosts reef fish populations
Research led by the University of Oxford has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water between different
Loss of ‘nitrogen fixers’ threatens biodiversity, ecosystems
Mississippi State University is part of a European-American collaboration studying how human activities, like fertilizer use and polluting, are impacting
Professor tackles graph mining challenges with new algorithm
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a breakthrough in graph mining with
American lobster population, habitat preferences shifting, study finds
American lobsters along Maine’s coast have relocated to new habitats, while the population simultaneously shrunk in abundance and grew older,