Bilbies bred in a sanctuary in Dubbo have provided researchers with vital clues about how they would fare in temperate Australia where they once thrived.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-bilbies-mild-climate-zones.html
A team of animal behaviorists from the University of Vienna, the University of Portsmouth, Elephant CREW, Jafuta Reserve and the University of St Andrews has found that elephants use gestures and...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-elephants-gestures-vocal-cues.html
DNA analysis by Queensland Museum scientists has unearthed the true identity of 15 species of land snails including four new-to-science species with one named in honor of Queensland wildlife warr...
A study published in the open-access journal NeoBiota reveals UK residents' complex perceptions of the ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri), an introduced species now prevalent across variou...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-resident-perceptions-necked-parakeet-uk.html
Wild chimpanzees have been studied for more than 60 years, but they continue to delight and surprise observers, as we found during the summer of 2017 in Kibale National Park in Uganda.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-playing-kids-important-chimpanzee-mothers.html
Australia's vital agriculture sector will be hit hard by steadily rising global temperatures. Our climate is already prone to droughts and floods. Climate change is expected to supercharge this, ...
The saturated soil conditions predicted to result from increased rainfall in the UK's upland regions could have a knock-on effect on the ambition to create more woodland in the fight against clim...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-saturated-soils-impact-survival-young.html
A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is using computer models to simulate how climate change could expand the geographical range in which mosquitoes live, which may cause an increase...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-global-boost-mosquito-habitats.html
The Australian brook lamprey (Mordacia praecox) is part of a group of primitive jawless fish. It's up to 15 cm long, with rows of sharp teeth. Surprisingly, it doesn't use these teeth to suck blo...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-ancient-endangered-lamprey-fish.html
Australian freshwater turtles are facing an alarming trend. Almost half of these species are listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-mary-river-turtle-people-tiaro.html
They're big, loud, and smelly—and they have taken over San Francisco's touristy Pier 39.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-essentially-gas-station-fishy-feast.html
Even bugs as small as woodlice can disperse seeds they eat, setting a new record for smallest animal recorded to do so. The Kobe University discovery underscores the crucial yet often overlooked ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-woodlice-smallest-dispersers-ingested-seeds.html
A short but robust little shrimp may have died out over 330 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, but the rare Scottish shellfish has been revitalized as a new species to science and...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-discovery-ancient-glaswegian-shrimp-fossil.html
CABI scientists have led research with collaborations from the University of Toronto and University of Guelph, both in Canada, to update a model which predicts the future spread of the box tree m...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-future-tree-moth-north-america.html
Branching is a pivotal determinant of plant architecture, not only influencing the capacity of the plant to adapt to its environment but also significantly impacting crop yield, ornamental charac...
A new study led by researchers from Oregon State University explores the significance of vegetable color in consumer choices and agricultural production, focusing on snap beans. The color of snap...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-snap-bean-panel-reveals-variability.html
Amphibians—like frogs and salamanders—are the most imperiled group of animal species in the world; infectious diseases are among the greatest threats to their existence. After a decade of res...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-bsal-task-stave-amphibian-disease.html
In the "sky islands" of the Soutpansberg Mountains of South Africa, two closely related species of primate jostle for space. One is the thick-tailed greater galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus), also...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-south-africa-tiny-primates-struggle.html
An article published in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management provides new insights on a northern hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) subspecies (lithuanica) and its establishment outsid...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-aquatic-weed-world-worst-northeastern.html
In a recent study published in Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, researchers of Wageningen University & Research and the University of Bergen have shown that release of dee...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-deep-sea-disastrous-marine-animals.html
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have identified a way for plants to gain resistance to cesium, a radioactive toxin that can be found in contaminated soil. ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-root-growth-radio-cesium-contaminated.html
Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a study published May 7 ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chimps-shown-tool-skills-adults.html
Elaborate observations reveal the structural specialization within an epithelial layer covering oocytes in the Japanese pill-millipede, Hyleoglomeris japonica, considered absent in Myriapoda. Com...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-discovery-specialization-myriapod-ovaries.html
Among the jagged peaks of the North Cascades, lush alpine meadows rich with berries and wildflowers blanket valleys carved by glaciers, some threaded with trickling creeks.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-grizzlies-washington-north-cascades.html
Vincetoxicum is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae family. It is distributed in Asia, especially in mountainous areas, and most of the known species occur in China and Japan. The extended Vince...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-vincetoxicum-species-yunnan.html
Insects and microorganisms that feed on plants, cut up leaves, modify leaf tissue or produce leaf spots and other kinds of damage, are usually known as pests and considered harmful, yet interacti...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-loss-large-herbivores-affects-interactions.html
Plants' ability to sense light and temperature, and their ability to adapt to climate change, hinges on free-forming structures in their cells whose function was, until now, a mystery.
Infanticide and adoption in the animal kingdom have long puzzled scientists. While both males and females of many species are known to kill the babies of their rivals to secure sexual or social a...
Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, measuring up to 30 meters long and weighing up to 200 tons—as much as a Boeing 787. Yet it's the sound they make, not their size, which gives their...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-giants-elusive-antarctic-blue-whale.html
How well bees tolerate temperature extremes could determine their ability to persist in a changing climate. But heat tolerance varies between and within populations, so a research team led by Pen...
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-bee-body-mass-pathogens-local.html