Panama Canal expansion rewrites history of world’s most ecologically diverse bats
Most bats patrol the night sky in search of insects. New World leaf-nosed bats take a different approach. Among the…
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Shark bites consistent with recent trends, with small spike in fatalities
There was an increase in the number of unprovoked shark attacks worldwide and an uptick in fatalities in 2023 compared…
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Millennia-old mystery about insects and light at night gets a new explanation
At night in the Costa Rican cloud forest, Yash Sondhi and a small team of international scientists switched on a…
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Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea, a biodiversity hot spot at risk
Nine new species of carnivorous land snails have been found in the remote forests of Papua New Guinea, a biodiversity…
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Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest-known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family
Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in…
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Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are actually relicts of millennial-scale extinction
In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared…
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Hundreds of Andean bird species at risk due to deforestation: New research shows how to protect them
Birds native to the tropical Andes, many of which cannot be found anywhere else, are threatened by increasing agricultural development…
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Wormlike animals are first amphibians shown to pass microbes to their offspring
Caecilians are an elusive type of amphibian that primarily live underground and look like a cross between a worm and…
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Marine fossils are a reliable benchmark for degrading and collapsing ecosystems
Biologists attempting to conserve and restore denuded environments are limited by their scant knowledge of what those environments looked like…
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New fish species discovered after years of popularity in the aquarium trade
With just a few clicks of a mouse, you can purchase your very own redtail garra, a type of fish…
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